What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else...

Don't come closer to me at any time without make-up. I may slap and make you feel the taste of death.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

You gotta learn to laugh, it's the way to true love.

I was an atheist, I was open-minded, and I began to read in that direction, in the direction of Islam, and everything that I read about it appealed to me.

Just by being private, the culture will change. We won't be forced to make decisions that are 90 days in relevance.

I don't know what to say, except I love Ryan Dunn and I'm really going to miss him.

Seek those who help you hear your own heart.