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

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

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.

Theres something just magical about flight. Period.

I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that thegovernment does not first take from somebody else.

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

Sin and the devil will always find helpers in our hearts.

If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.

I don't know why songwriters struggle. They have to, I guess. If you're a young songwriter, quit struggling. It makes you look bad.

O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?