When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.

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.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

An idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

We use such big words to move nowhere.

I love watching, I love getting all the science about food. That's one of my favorite things.

The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

I don't understand why Italians should be bound to Brussels's choices without being able to express themselves through a referendum.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

I am vulnerable; that's why I fight.