A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong you pull that parachute and the whole plane goes down slowly.