When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space ... but rather to improve the quality of life.

The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because it was easy and anyone could have done it.

Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.