No one can move without some leadership.
There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.
When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?
Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts. And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.
A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.
Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.
I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?
All the things you need in the death transition, you need now in the life transition, because life is a transition, it is a between state. Therefore, every night when you fall asleep, it's like you die. And every time you do, you should be using the process of falling asleep as giving up your attention to sense objects, your discursive ruminating thoughts and so on. You should use that as a process of giving up and giving yourself completely to the universe and becoming completely obliterated.
I believe you can speak things into existence.
I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.