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.

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

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

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

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.

Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint.

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.