Without work men are utterly undone

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the tail was light. Watch it... Lovely.

If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.