You know you’re a skydiver when your friends look at the sky and say, “look at all those clouds,” and you say, “look at all those holes!” – Author Unknown

I was on the point of cutting the cord that suspended me between heaven and earth… and measured with my eye the vast space that separated me from the rest of the human race… I felt myself precipitated with a velocity that was checked by the sudden unfolding of my parachute. – André-Jacques Garnerin, 1797

For — believe me — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is — to live dangerously! – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), The Gay Science, “Book Four: St Januarius