I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.

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.

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

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.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Nobody will ever tell you who praised you but everybody would want to be the first to tell you who criticized you.

One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.

Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

I have had a few gentlemen let me know they find my manly beardiness somewhat alluring. Never any ladies though.

I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won't get you anywhere.

The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.