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

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.

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.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny

The row was actually about everything in creation, but it had for its subject of the moment the boy's mustache.

Some girls had mothers who never called them beautiful but swore their love up and down. It's all the same, really. All bullshit.

Only a fool goes to war in winter.

Seeing and admitting the truth about ourselves, about our role in creating our own problems, and about how we relate to others is vital for healing.

The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.

The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.

I always figure I'm not unique, and something that would please me hopefully would please a lot of other people that have the same tastes that I do.

You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.

You just need that opening, that moment, when you finally decide to give yourself permission to change.