the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.

What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.

Success feeds confidence.

That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity

For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship.

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.

Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice