Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

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

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of man — where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant.