Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.

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.

And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space.

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

Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.