If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

Of course, Bronx is also useful as a kind of living personality test. If Bronx likes you, it's a [darn] good sign.

Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

To me, anything goes. But that's me.

An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.