Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

My neighbor has a circular driveway… he can’t get out.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I don’t like L.A. It’s just not fun. I don’t know why, but I just don’t get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Mine is better than ours.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Precaution is better than cure.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‚Bye!‘

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.