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.

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

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Silence is safer than speech.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

I had to drive with a roof in LMP2, and I managed to get used to that quite quickly – although it’s still not a Halo, it’s still different to what I’m used to.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

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

Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor’s dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

I love driving my car on any highway.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

F2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Control is the source of strategic power.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

I think the word rich is all relative.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

I don’t fly because of the enormous climate impact of aviation per person.

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

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

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

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.

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

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.

I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

From the late 1940s, into and through the ’50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.