Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

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

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

Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.

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.

I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How detached the intimate things around me seem from the great world down below. How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground - seconds away - thousands of miles away. This air, stirring mildly around me. That air, rushing by with the speed of a tornado, an inch beyond. These minute details in my cockpit. The grandeur of the world outside. The nearness of death. The longness of life.