Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

There are old pilots and there are bold pilots', goes the saying, 'there are no old bold pilots'. Hal never qualified as old. He'd survived his fuel tank blunder; his next mistake killed him.
In the years that followed, other pilot friends and acquaintances were killed in flying accidents. We were never ready; the news always shocked. Whether we learned from these shocks is doubtful; every pilot is certain that Death will never find him.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.