"What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try a..."
"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."
"It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you."
"I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars."
"By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astronaut in the U.K.'"
"Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less."
"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared."
"Having a plan enabled us to keep our hope alive. Perhaps in a similar fashion, people who are in their own personal crises - a pink slip, a foreclosure - can be reminded that no matter how dire the circumstance, or how little time you have to deal with it, further action is always possible. There's always a way out of even the tightest spot."
"To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission."
"It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live."
"Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good."
"I would rather spend one day on Maui than 30 days in the hospital."
"It's amazing what you can learn to get used to."
"When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!"
"I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy."
"We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out."
"It's almost an out of body experience to see things that First Officer Jeff Skiles and I said in the cockpit together, played by actors."
"You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led."
"Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real."
"I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker."
"Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases."
"When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying."
"Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it."
"One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing."
"When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say."
"I refused to take no for an answer."
