"We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on."

"I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me."

"The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that."

"Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess."

"I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers."

"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely."

"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."