It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat today’s actions 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.

I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn't.

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.

Don't judge people by their profession, otherwise you'll end up with more enemies than friends.

As you communicate regularly with your very own angels, you will come to trust them and you will also in the process develop more confidence.

Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are, and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality, it connects you to reality.

[In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images.

But the hoping, that's what really hurts.

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.