Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

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

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

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?

I'm not bound to be in aviation at all. I'm here only because I love the sky and flying more than anything else on earth. Of course there's danger; but a certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life. I don't believe in taking foolish chances' but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

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.