To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

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

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 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.

Your universe grows when you are learning.

Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets." Begin again.

Action done totally brings relaxation

Whenever I get married, it will be a Bengali wedding. If I won't have a Bengali wedding, my mother won't come. She has warned me. So, I am going to have a Bengali wedding for sure.

Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me

The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

The preacher asked her and she said I do. The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does, too.

Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?

You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.