For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Losing an arm is kinda lame at one point, but at the same time, so much good has come out of it.

You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music.

The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.

Your dream has to be bigger than your fear.