Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.

I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.

I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.

The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.

On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.

I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.

Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.

Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.

Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.

In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.

The moment you are wrapped up in the world, you become blind to the things wrapped in the mysteries.

Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.

Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty.

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!

I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that.