I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.

I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.

In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with humans.

Earthbound souls know only the underside of the atmosphere in which they live . . . but go higher - above the dust and water vapor - and the sky turns dark until one can see the stars at noon.

Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

I'd have given my right eye to be an astronaut.

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.

And to live without risk for me would have been tantamount to death.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept.

Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone

The audience and I are friends. They allowed me to grow up with them. I've let them down several times. They've let me down several times. But we're all family.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.