I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.

I have this feeling that life is a spiritual adventure, and I want to make mine in the sky.

Even before we . . . had reached 300 feet, I recognized that the sky would be my home. I tumbled out of the airplane with stars in my eyes.

Waiting is erotic

Good heart does not produce science or even art, but knowledge does, intellect does and absolutely expertise does.

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.

I do think of emotions as being on a circular path, so you can feel terrible and terrible and terrible, and then all of a sudden it becomes quite funny.

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.

George Halas throws nickels around like man hole covers.

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.