Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.

If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.

To save the seas, we can eat sustainably and be conscious of the seafood we eat.

Any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves.

We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not even close to bringing under control.

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and the sea!

We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.

I just feel like history is very much alive and important and I don't, you know, I can't worry about whether people get it or not, per se.

Now you know that you can't go wrong... If you start each day with a song.

When I get recognized, every time feels like the first time.

Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.