In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.

Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at all, a cornstalk, or a giant redwood, or a flight across the ocean. Whatever a man imagines, he can achieve.

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.