We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house. When we get there, we dream of something else.

To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.

The surfing - the waves in Indonesia are amazing.

I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world.

Pure love is an unmediated, unmitigated, and unrevealing, but everlasting source of joy for the giver and for the receiver.

It is known all over the world that there are no secrets in the ghetto and as long as you keep those secrets, you may keep your life.

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.

The wise do not investigate such silliness.

I'm able to draw outside my own personal experiences. No one wants to hear the song about what I really did today, which is go get coffee and clean my apartment.

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love.

Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.