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

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.

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.

La vie est une aventure audacieuse ou alors elle n'est rien.

What does egoism mean? It means to become blind through one’s own vision. The Gnani [the enlightened one] removes the egoism.

She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

Always the bridesmaid , never the bride." Always the godfather, never the god".

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.

Most people leave work at the end of the day so they can surround themselves with people and talk, but those are both things I do all day anyway! So I tend to seek out peace in my private time.

What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.

Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession.