The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.

The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

When I was six, all I dreamt about was becoming a diver on Jacques Cousteau's boat, the famous Calypso.

Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.

When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.

What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit. Reserves are like savings accounts.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Grace is available to us from God, but it is located in our place of work

If you're alive, you're creative.

I have heard queens' swans, moved a man to cry, heard Bach played in the Metro on guitars.I have made love in Paris. Let me die.

I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in my real life. I am able to let go. I think it's why I like it so much.

All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.

The greater the force of your compassion, the greeater your resilience in confronting hardships.

I like orange and blue together, but I would never wear them.

When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.