If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.

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

Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying around overhead. I love the sky's unbroken solitude. I don't like to think of it cluttered up by aircraft, as roads are cluttered up by cars. I feel like the western pioneer when he saw barbed-wire fence lines encroaching on his open plains. The success of his venture brought the end of the life he loved.

I would rather live one day in Maui than one month in New York.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again.