Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun, ' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.

The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

The richest treasure God has for you are the people in your life. Give thanks and don't take them for granted.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

Well, you need to have at least one black friend, otherwise people think you're racist