"If you pay peanuts, you wind up hiring monkeys."

“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.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.97, Thomas Nelson Inc

“The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.”

“I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future.”

“Behind every piece of bad content is an executive who asked for it.”

“We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.”

“The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.”

“In the wildest anarchy of man's insurgent appetites and sins there is still a reclaiming voice,--a voice which, even when in practice disregarded, it is impossible not to own; and to which, at the very moment that we refuse our obedience, we find that we cannot refuse the homage of what ourselves do feel and acknowledge to be the best, the highest principles of our nature.”

“Thanksgiving is the day you don't know if you're invited for dinner or an intervention either way is going to be an ambush.”