Knowledge is the key to making a difference.

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

No water, no life. No blue, no green.

Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you're in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don't see sharks.

Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.

I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.

Will therapy make you feel any better? Not if it's working.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

My social life is friends at the pool; I have just finished school as I am now a full-time athlete.

We don't love others when we find them beautiful, we find others beautiful when we love them.

I might have a little bit of cellulite. I might not be toned everywhere. I might struggle in this area or that. But accepting that just empowers me.

I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

Some people are born very far from home.

What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.