“Being able to pick and read good waves is almost more important than surfing well.”

“Great stories build relationships and make people care. Those two things are necessary to change anything.”

“Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I've found, however, is work.”

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-de...”

“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

“Great stories build relationships and make people care. Those two things are necessary to change anything.”