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

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

Most of the time you are growing up, people tell you what's wrong with you. Your coach tells you, your parents tell you, the teachers tell you when they grade you. I think that's very good in the early stages, because it helps you then develop skills. But at some point in your career, generally I think when you are in your teens, you look in a mirror and you have to say, despite all the bumps and warts, "I like that person I'm looking at, and let's just do our best."

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

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.

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.

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