You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.