My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.
The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.
There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a religious man per se. . . but for me, to go to sea is to get a glimpse of the face of God. At sea I am reminded of my insignificance-of all men's insignificance. It is a wonderful feeling to be so humbled.
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.
A view of heaven from a seat in hell.
My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.
Avoiding risk is not much of a goal. . . whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge.
In my time in the U. S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy. . . I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.
Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.
You're the WWE Champion and I would never let you down!
Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.