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

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

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 am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.

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

I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.

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.