My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we hurry up and go surfing!?, I'm sick of waiting for my sisters and their ballet classes.'

The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.

Experiencing different cultures is one of the best things a human being can do. It puts your whole world into perspective.

Life's too short to sit around and wait.

As long as I'm still surfing wherever I am, I'll always be happy.

What I love the most about surfing is that it's my first love. It's the first thing I can remember being consumed by.

I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure it out.

Winning is euphoric, but it lasts a short time. You've got to lap it up, then move on to the next thing. I think I've kept winning because I haven't attached myself to past successes.

Surfers are in tune with the weather because if there's a storm coming, there are waves coming. I love the rain.

We must picture Oxford, during World War I, not as the neomedieval paradise it would like to be, but as the military compound it was obliged to become.

Because I was conceived and born and I grew up. I'm breathing and my heart is beating and as much as it hurts ― as much searing, monumental pain it causes me ― I have to exist.

Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.

A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style.

Our primary relationship is really with ourselves. Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.

When we're doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed.

I knew you'd kiss me." "How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself. "Because I am in pain," He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention.

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning.