Great stories build relationships and make people care. Those two things are necessary to change anything.

Being able to pick and read good waves is almost more important than surfing well.

Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I've found, however, is work.

Genius has less to do with the size of your mind than how open it is.

Sticking to one person for a lifetime is not a waste of time or lack of better ones, it means you've found your place of eternity.

Nightmares appear many times before your dream.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

The lessons I learned in Sunday School have kept me on track

I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves.

The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.

Each of us is ultimately alone.