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.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

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!‘

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

To make headway, improve your head.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

I’ve always been fascinated by everything with wings.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

What one fool can understand, another can.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

All of our problems start in our minds.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

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 willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

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

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Freedom is relative.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.