Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will share with you their philosophies, their concepts of the world, of humanity and of creation. You will learn about events that have shaped our history, of deeds both noble and ignoble. All of this knowledge is yours for the taking… Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.