Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

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

One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.

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.