I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

No borders, just horizons - only freedom.

When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

He just hit himself in the dinger with a rubber.

Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.

If the costumes are wrong, you feel awful in them and it lessens your acting.

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

If you want to predict the future of our land, go to school and look around.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life.