Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

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 believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of mind - qualities he cannot develop when he lets mechanics and luxury insulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born.

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

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.