You don't have to tell me how long I'm on the wire.

There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are.

I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.

I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.

I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.

It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?

I respect what I do deeply. I don't get nervous to the point of fear.

The whole world is my family.

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.

No matter where life takes me. Find me with a smile.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

My family keeps me pretty grounded. Like if I try anything diva, they're like, 'Oh shut up. Go and do the dishwasher.'

Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.