Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.

During challenging times and when impassioned to act, human beings can be capable of miracles.

Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

No matter how remote we feel we are from the oceans, every act each one of us takes in our everyday lives affects our planet's water cycle and in return affects us.

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

Love is for real men.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.

Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

Since when is the intelligence agency supposed to be an air force of drones that goes around killing people? I believe that it's a job for the department of defense.

In the desert you celebrate nothing but water.