No, not conquer, that is too foolish a world. Any man who scales a mountain is still but a man, a transient speck compared to the immensity and permanence of a mountain .

To be young and to experience the feeling of being alive is a sweet feeling. To feel alive and to have a purpose and a goal to that life is better still.

Will is a gift from God, desire from the devil.

Heaven is fleeting, but Hell is an eternity. Hell becomes the more so the longer one lives it.

Being able to pick and read good waves is almost more important than surfing well.

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

To be working in the theater steadily and to be recognized and appreciated by the community means the world.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.