Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

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 .

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

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.

Being still does not mean don't move. It means move in peace.

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

Will the highways on the Internet become more few?

I feel like my job is to give hope. The world is in a dark place and we are living in somewhat of a nightmare. So I want to make films to give hope.

Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and we cannot raise our children well either.

I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.