The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"!

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light.

In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception.

The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain.

There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them.

I doubted myself, and that made me doubt you. But you weren’t the problem. You were never the problem. I should have trusted you, but I didn’t, because I couldn’t trust myself.

You do not see fairies through the eyes, you see them through the heart and that took me a long time to learn because I was always trying to see them through my eyes.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

No pressure is greater than God's power.

I'm not sure what I was good at as a kid. I was good at playing with Legos.

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing.

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the setups in private and quiet.