Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by a pressure they do not feel, are forced to do their work like ants. With what do they fill their time when they are free of work on their silly little Sundays? I am very fortunate in my profession. I feel like a farmer, with the airstrips as my fields. Those that have once tasted this kind of fare will not forget it ever. Not so, my friends?

If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.