I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it's not how you look; it's how you perform.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

I'm one of the more positive cats, but when people go off about everybody wanting to be a DJ, I don't doubt them either. I understand their point as well.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.

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