“I think the rocket business is quite cyclic. There are a great many peaks and troughs.”

“Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don’t know whether you’re in a trough until you’re climbing out, or on a peak until you’re coming down.”

“I have read a lot about it and I watched it and Liberty University, like a rocket ship, a really great rocket ship.”

“If your journal consists of the best moments of your life and reading, then rereading it will be like walking a high mountain trail that goes from peak to peak without the intervening descent into the trough of routine. Just reading such a journal of high points will tighten your strings and raise your pitch.”

“…and I longed to return to the peak to explore some of the many ridges and faces which as yet had never been attempted. I now realise how lucky I was to have had this extraordinary peak virtually to myself;…”

“It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.”

“Clearly, the broad effect of economic evolution until about 1920 was to increase the concentration of jobs in the cyclically volatile industries, and this was a major force tending to intensify declines of employment during business contractions. Since then, the continued progress of technology, the very factor which originally was mainly responsible for the concentration in the cyclical industries, has served to arrest this tendency. The upward trend of production in manufacturing and the other highly cyclical industries has remained rapid in recent decades.”

“The difficulties in princes' business are many and great; but the greatest difficulty, is often in their own mind.”

“It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.”

“Try a rocket launcher. Think maybe you could manage to hit me with that?”