I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.

Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.

The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.

Earth is a silly name for this planet.

Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that is there and perhaps do something to take care of it.

The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.

The mind is the key

There is need for a new foundation and this foundation is laid in us on the day of our salvation

...because you are young and you live in a confusing world of gray shades where compromises are easy and often."Keep you heart right.

If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.

I do not believe that I am a perfectionist one bit. I truly believe that perfection is something that no one can achieve.

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people.

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.

The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.

I cheat my boys every chance I get, I want to make 'em sharp.