Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.

Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.

How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.