Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.

Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live?

I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.

Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.

I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.

Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.

Money can't buy happiness.

The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.

When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.

Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.

You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.

I was walking down the street, and I found a man's hand in my pocket. I asked, "What do you want?" "A match" "Why didn't you ask me?" "I don't talk to strangers."

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.

We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don’t benefit from their crumb.