I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They MADE me nervous. Now I know you can travel to the bottom of the OCEAN or to outer space or anywhere in between without LEAVING your armchair, and I'm so, so SORRY I couldn't read when I was younger.

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under SAIL to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I SEE a BIG white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the OCEAN, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

Just as a DROP of WATER in the ocean cannot AVAIL MUCH; but if a GREAT river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.

I'm HOPEFUL that we'll be ABLE to STUDY the OCEAN before we DESTROY it.

In the OCEAN of baseness, the DEEPER we GET, the EASIER the sinking.

I LOVE the OCEAN. BOATS, not so MUCH.

I believe that climate change is real, is DRIVEN mainly by human activity and that it is driving real-world changes such as extreme WEATHER events, hotter temperatures, rising sea LEVELS and OCEAN acidification.

I LIVE in a puddle of GUILT, an OCEAN of guilt that you WANT your own TIME.

If the workers took a notion they COULD stop all speeding trains; EVERY ship upon the ocean they can tie with MIGHTY chains.

It is of great USE to the sailor to KNOW the length of his line, THOUGH he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

For some REASON surfing... I'm not SCARED of the ocean so the RISK doesn't seem as GREAT to me.

I was a good surfer because we GREW up a block from the WATER, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their KIDS to the PARK.

My mom told me that EVEN as a TODDLER I wasn't afraid of anything. She thought something was wrong with me. I didn't KNOW how to WALK or swim, but that didn't STOP me from crawling into the ocean and almost drowning over and over again.

Cirque du Soleil MEANS Circus of the SUN. When I need to take TIME to reenergize, I go somewhere by the ocean to sit back and watch the sunsets. That is where the idea of 'Soleil' came from, on a beach in HAWAII, and because the sun is the symbol of youth and energy.