The energy that moves across the ocean connects all surfers who ride it.

Surfing teaches patience . On land, surfers cannot will a swell to appear. They have to wait for nature to make the call. So surfers wait . They keep their eyes on the horizon and they wait.

Surfing is all about uncertainty. That feeling of taking a risk, that leap of faith every time I jump into the ocean, that paddle out among things unseen — all of these make surfing very special

I will catch a wave every day, even in my mind.

One word defines the essence of surfing better for me than any other — stoke . One of the best things about stoke is that you can pass it along to someone who has never heard the expression.

All surfers are joined by one ocean.

Love is it's own protection.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity.

Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.

Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.

Time will come; we will plant trees to other planets! I see the orange trees and the cherries in the far lands beyond the earth.

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

I was a big Magic Johnson fan. And I guess people who knew that gave a name that... In that vein. I tried to play like him.