If people are crazy enough to dare, impossible things happen.

Unless you dream, you're not going to achieve anything.

Your brand or your name is simply your reputation, you have to fight in life to protect that as it means everything. Nothing is more important.

I don’t think of work as work and play as play. It’s all living.

The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking.

I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.

Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.