"Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!"

"Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of."

"I have a unique workout schedule. I concentrate on balancing with my core and my legs. Then, like any other surfer, I try to read the ocean. It's always changing and moving - doing its own thing - so you need to learn how it works and how to position yourself."

"I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be the best surfer I can be. It's not all about competing and being the best. It's more about having fun and just doing what you love."

"We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds."

"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."

"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."

"In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it."