Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I'm not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation, communications, repairing the burners, taking care of the equipment.

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.

I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.

...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.

I am trying to sell beauty.Worst that you can do to me is not buy it!

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century.

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.

I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground.