For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.
Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are.
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.
We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.
We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.
The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.
Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.