Have confidence in yourself and don't let people put you down or make you feel weak or worthless, because the more they put you down, the more you need to get back up and prove how wrong they are.

There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me."

It's not so much what you do, it's just how well you do it, and that you do, do it.

You've always got to be aware of why you don't win; otherwise you'll keep losing. Every mistake is a learning experience and, hopefully, you won't make the same mistake again.

I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, what do I want? The first thing that comes to mind is always the right one.

I haven't prepared as much as I would like to but it will be fun to get out there again. I have nothing left to prove in surfing but still have the desire to keep going.

There are so many people put there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

To take a leap, you must hope not to fall.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams.

And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.

Every year Steve Kaufman supports the charity “Love Ride” by donating a painting to this cause.

Actors were the first people to accept me.

A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.