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Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You're not moving so fast that you miss the world's details passing by - in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.

I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time.

It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.

I've been so lucky to have done two spacewalks. If you looked at your wristwatch, I was outside about 15 hours, which is about 10 times around the world. And, you know, there's a whole time dilation, distortion thing.