Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and maintain their vigor. I have been forced to the conclusion that an over-emphasis of science weakens character and upsets life's essential balance.

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of feeling that comes when you gauge the distance to be jumped between two stones across a brook. Something within you disengages itself from your body and travels ahead with your vision to make the test. You can feel it try the jump as you stand looking. Then uncertainty gives way to the conviction that it can or can't be done.

In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.