I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see 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.

I'm open to meet any person; I think we can learn from one another.

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

I think people love to be noticed, they love to feel included. A lot of people are flattered if you, you know, if you make jokes about them, or I think because it means they're known.

People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.

When short guys start working out to bulk up. I like muscles, but I don't like really buff guys.

If you want to interest people, make them think. If you want to inspire people, make them feel.

The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

With dance, it's about education. I'm teaching a lot. I teach the foundations of hip-hop.