I also want to take cognizance of the fact that this flight was made out in the open with all the possibilities of failure, which would have been damaging to our country's prestige. Because great risks were taken in that regard, it seems to me that we have some right to claim that this open society of ours which risked much, gained much.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

Everything changes but change itself.

Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.

If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.