Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”

Never forget! You can design, create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make a dream a reality.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

How did I happen to become an explorer? It did not just happen, for my career has been a steady progress toward a definite goal since I was fifteen years of age.

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”