Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.

The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

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