What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Life is a disease.

the problems changed, but people were the same

You owe it to your destiny to never allow your mind to become a playground for negative thoughts and beliefs.

When I bet on horses, I never lose. Why? I bet on all the horses.

All the care I would take, all the love that we made.. Now you trying to find somebody to replace what I gave to ya

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

Challenges met are the scariest but are sometimes the most worthwhile.

Being clear of clutter is one of the greatest aids I know to discovering and manifesting the life you want.

Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.

There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of connecting, and saying thanks.