The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead.

all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.