I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air.

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