A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

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

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

The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

I saw a fleet of fishing boats...I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.