There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

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

Never wait for trouble.

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

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.

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

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

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me.

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.

What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.

You do what you can for as long as you can and when you finally cant you do the next best thing. You back up but you dont give up.

Pedestals arent safe...one wrong move and a nasty tumble is sure to follow. Humility is a great grounding tool.

Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.

It’s helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

This is why homophobia is a terrible evil: it disguises itself as concern while it is inherently hate.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.

Business is the salt of life.

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

I used Agitator on some code I had unit-tested, and it made me a better tester. As an Agitar Fellow, I look forward to the leverage of working with an outstanding organization as together we continue to improve the value of developer testing.

I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.

The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house.

Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city.

Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

I was 8 years old in the spring of 1945 when my family fled Silesia to escape the Russian army. On our way, we passed through Dresden. A few days later, it was firebombed. The fire was so bright that night that one could read a newspaper from the light, though we were many kilometers away.

You cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.

Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fathoms deep, marching bravely to pull out plugs in bathtubs.

I think the post-Rick-Perry Texas is a Texas that is more competitive between the Democrats and Republicans. I think the Republicans still have a huge advantage, but I think if we're arguing that competition is good for the system, then I think a stronger two-party system in Texas is inevitable, and I think that it will happen.

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

Jill and I arrange our lives to spend a lot of time together. That makes us both happy.

I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing artists. It's gotten away from making a full album of music that someone would want to listen to all the way through.