It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.

Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.

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.