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.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

The idea of racial inferiority or superiority is foreign to me. I can't feel inferior or superior to another man because of race, or in any way antagonistic to him. I judge by the individual, not by his race, and have always done so. I would rather have one of my children marry into a good family of any race than into a bad family of any other race.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.