I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

Like riding a bike for the first time, sometimes you just have to go for it. If you keep looking forwards and maintain your momentum, it will probably go well. But if you start to doubt yourself and look back, you are more likely to suffer a major wobble followed by a crash.

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn't.

When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.

The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection with everything. I was just a tiny speck of consciousness, and yet I was consciousness itself.

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.