More than four billion people live within a stone's throw of the ocean, so what happens to it affects them immediately, daily, whether pollution, more frequent storms, or rising sea levels.

The more familiar people are with the ecosystem that lives below the surface - invisible until you're actually in the ocean - the more likely they are to do what they can to protect it.

I think the best way to protect the ocean is to encourage people onto it and into it.

You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk - Chapter 19, Page 122

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to. --Polgara

To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

So long as you are in this world, be not surprised at the existence of sorrows.

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

Since I don't believe in externalism, I don't think it can explain consciousness!

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