Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of mind - qualities he cannot develop when he lets mechanics and luxury insulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born.

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

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

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through the sense of sight. When you see without feeling, you are still partly blind; you lack the inner light that brings awareness. Awareness requires the interplay of every faculty, the use of your entire being as an eye.

Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.