Good people drink good beer. Just look around any public barroom and you will see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.
At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.
You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of serious situations. And that's the way the X-1 was.
Never wait for trouble.
The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.
I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter.
In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.
I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
As we explore the nature of our gift, our goal is to move toward this kind of giving: cheerful giving that flows gently and easily, kingly giving that flows surely from who we are. As we encounter the questions—Who are we ? What do we love ?—the gift we bring will be easy, because our gift naturally emerges from who we are. The offering we bring is ourselves, just as we are. Our gift is our true nature. There can be no greater gift than this.