Experiencing different cultures is one of the best things a human being can do. It puts your whole world into perspective.

The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.

Life's too short to sit around and wait.

As long as I'm still surfing wherever I am, I'll always be happy.

What I love the most about surfing is that it's my first love. It's the first thing I can remember being consumed by.

I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure it out.

Winning is euphoric, but it lasts a short time. You've got to lap it up, then move on to the next thing. I think I've kept winning because I haven't attached myself to past successes.

Surfers are in tune with the weather because if there's a storm coming, there are waves coming. I love the rain.

My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we hurry up and go surfing!?, I'm sick of waiting for my sisters and their ballet classes.'

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.

When you’ve crawled through the darkness, the light is so much more glorious.

To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.

All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds.

We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.

Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.

(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.