Surfing is a deeply wonderful thing – anytime, anywhere and any way

One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.

Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling!

I think I'm getting wealthy in ways that don't count at the bank.

Waves keep coming, that's the one thing you can count on in life

The first time you get a ride on a surf board and you are being propelled along by a wave, it’s probably as close as humans can get to being able to fly like a bird

Surfing is attitude dancing.

It's a cakewalk, when you know how.

What gods do you pray to?

If we can use technology to shorten the path between intention and action, that excites me.

I don't believe in lowest common denominators. Our focus has been on delivering value. We're rarely going to be the cheapest theater in a market. We strive to be the best.

The most powerful affirmation you will ever find is this: “I am as God created me.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

Every right decision you create opens a wide gate to your destiny.

" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.

How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.

It's offensive to me to be called a cost cutter.

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.

Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.