True love is not giving power to the other person, but instead is empowering you to make that person happy.
In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.
I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.
Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
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.
When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.
When I have a cocktail, I love a vodka and cranberry. But when I was a kid my mother was really against drinking, because it was so bad for your skin. She'd say, "Stephanie, it's much better to wash your face with vodka. "
I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.