This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again.

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.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

It’s the enemy of your enemy who is your friend Sophie, not the friend of your friend.

I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.

To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.

The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I had great homes. Both my parents remarried and I got more people to learn from!

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.