If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them.

There is nothing more powerful than the made-up mind.

We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.

Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right.

The importance of music extends well beyond its performance.

The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.

When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke.

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

I am very careful about who I choose to build memories with. Some of them might last a lifetime.

I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it?

Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

She was incurably dishonest.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

Study the greats and become greater

In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.