The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.

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

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

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of man — where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.