The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.

Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat today’s actions 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn't.

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.

Rapture is costly

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Death is not the end it is but one more step in a great forward march made possible by the redemption wrought by the Savior. This is the spirit of true science - constant and eternal seeking.

I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.

Christ, it's so good to be alive.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

I think at this point, safety isn't a feeling, it's a process. Starting with trust.

The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.