Life without risks is not worth living.

Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much myself. Did I not prefer the brown skin that came with exposure to the sun?

Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.

It is about a period in aviation which is now gone, but which was probably more interesting than any the future will bring. As time passes, the perfection of machinery tends to insulate man from contact with the elements in which he lives. The 'stratosphere' planes of the future will cross the ocean without any sense of the water below. Like a train tunneling through a mountain, they will be aloof from both the problems and the beauty of the earth's surface.

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.

At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.