Failure isn't a problem. It's the fear of failure that's the limiting factor. You can't lose your nerve for the big failure, because it's the exact same nerve you need for the big success.

The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure.

[We're making materials] so light that you can make a car that two people can lift, but so strong that it has the crash-worthiness of an SUV.

At Mach 20, we can fly from New York to Long Beach in 11 minutes and 20 seconds.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.

I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world.

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

Can't nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over. But this month I'm takin' every movin' target out.