It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all.

It's true. Happiness is a big thing.

As long as Im getting waves and having fun, the results tend to take care of themselves.

I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.

I guess you're only as good as the waves.

Ive been on the tour for 12 years, and the big dream has always been to get a world title.

I stay away from big chunks of carbs and try to keep it lean, even when Im competing.

If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it.

As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I dont let myself get bored. I just go surfing.

Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.

The instrument through which time is converted is called work.

Don’t think too small about what God could do in your life—be prepared for God to do a big thing.

All things are possible until they are proven impossible.

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

Philosophy finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.

L.A. kind of scares me.

There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.