I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.

You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.

If you dont see me on tour, its because I have found happiness away from winning, and that might be the biggest achievement I could ever accomplish.

I try changing my surfing, which is the absolute worst thing you can do. Everyone surfs their own way. If I try to surf like someone else I look like a dork.

Mothering Oxymoron: Reminding the kids to not talk with food in their mouths, yet I have food in my mouth while trying to correct them in the moment.

That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.