I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are.

It feels great to be on top of the world but the greatest feeling is when your feet are on the ground.

The only limit is the one you set yourself.

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

Never accept your limitations - because there are NO limitations.

One of the most exciting moments was standing out on top of the world, 30 seconds before stepping off.

When you stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble.

Everyone has limits. Not everyone accepts them.

People cheer on tyrants for fear of becoming targets.

For, if after fifty you don't live the aspirations of the young, go away. Who needs needs spectacled snails, salivating on the Soma of youth.

WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.

The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.

The most developed science remains a continual becoming

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.