I would rather live one day in Maui than one month in New York.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Life without risks is not worth living.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

To me faith means not worrying.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

You might be a redneck if it's easier to spray weed killer on your lawn than mow it.

I loved working on that show [Defiance]. I mean, that show was brutal. We worked long, brutal hours in really brutal weather.

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.