I think the astronaut job is the best job in the world. I realized when I was older and started applying for it that it's a pretty cool job.
We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry.
It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?
We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds.
One thing that I pride myself on is, everything that I do is completely legit. We go through every channel, and do it the proper way.
Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.
I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.
Video is moving online in a big way. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost.
The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize.
Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.
I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.
I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.
An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.
On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.
I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.
When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.
To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.
