Without someone telling you what you are doing is wrong, you can't say what you are doing is right..

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror..

I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes. It's all part of the game..

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stic….

Everybody is entertained to death..

I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, ….

I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of….

You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing..

My father modestly referred to himself as the Great Santini when we were growing up. And he took it - I later learned he had seen a high-wire aeriali….

There is so much more to understand..

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jump….

It's something to be Great, It's nothing to be Famous.

Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing..

We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us..

Do what's good for you Or you're not good for anybody.

just let Mitch be Mitch.

The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect..

It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush..

Fear attracts attack..

I don't think of love in terms of relationships. It happens in terms of seconds, but it goes away like that, too. I pass a nurse, I love her, it ends….

Anyone can be happy when times are good; the richer experience is to be happy when times are not.