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

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.

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.

Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.

[H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture—and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death.

It's not about presents but it is about your presence. Therein lies the spirit of the holiday season.

Embarrassing facts, those would really help our children remember their classroom lessons better.

Life is one darn thing after another.

I didn't go off speech on Mexico; I want off speech on virtually everything.

You don't have the bug, so go do what makes you happy.

Let's be pastors who cast vision that are worth people giving their life for.

While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

When I walk into the room, I own it!

My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland.