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.

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

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

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.

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.