I learned failure early and mastered it.
They call me Fearless Felix.
This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.
The stratosphere is a hostile place.
I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.
Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. I've spoken with a number of young people who weren't even born in 1969, when the first moon landing was made. They've witnessed the first person to fly at faster than speed of the sound without propulsion. These kids are happy to have had such a momentous event in their lifetime.
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visual, electronic world in the language of the visual world of Newton.
I was going for the idea that a time can also be a location. You can revisit a time of year, in the same way you can go back to a house that you used to live in.
If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?