When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.

If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future.

When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want

When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our lives

There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.

There's a price to pay for the speed, and that is danger. And to push that hard on a boat - it does take a lot out of you and is incredibly stressful.

There's a plane flying over me and I'm looking forward to being able to relax and not worry about the weather or boat speed.

Holy intimacy is fostered with the marriage to two commitments: one to sitting in quiet solitude with the inner Self

A breeze blew softly, slightly rippling the water as it carried the heady scents of late Carolina springtime through the air. Honeysuckle. Jasmine. Ripe, pungent river mud. Ah, the world felt right.

No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.

In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.

If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?

Then die. We must all do that. But die, as they say, game.

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.

Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison and jail population of about 300,000 to now more than 2 million.

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.