I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are.

I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.

I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.

I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.

It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?

I respect what I do deeply. I don't get nervous to the point of fear.

Hmmm, ' the King said, making a face. 'I'm not sure this is what we bargained for, boy. We expected the girl to be attractive.' If I hadn't been so terrified, I would have been insulted.

In all change well looked into the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.

I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.

I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

The President says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come."

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

I'm a bit uncomfortable, truth be told, with being seen as an expert, because there is always so much more to learn. I see myself as a perpetual student of the goddess.

President Abbas and myself, we are the ones who signed the Oslo agreement, so we really know each other, not just theoretically.

You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.