“In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.”

“You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.”

“You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.”

“The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.”

“I am the perfect version of me.”

“But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world.”

“I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.”

“We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, h...”

“People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. B...”

“Q: You'er presented with a smooth-faced, eight-foot-high wooden wall. Your objective? Get over it. To, like, save comrades or something. How to accomplish this?A: Take a running start, brace one fo...”

“When everything seems to be going wrong with you, you must remember the airplane takes off against the wind”

“There is truly no other place bearing so much love as airports.”

“I continuously see myself on an airplane that has unlimited fuel. I go here and there but can't stop. Always flying over my destination. I've come to realize I must jump off with my parachute on of...”