Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

The more one does the more one can do.

Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.

Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes.