Money is a great isolator. In fact, we don't even need to have money or make money, we only need to be perceived as having money to be isolated in the strangest ways from most of the community around us. It reaches the point where a person with money spends a great deal of time reacting to people who are reacting to the money.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication.

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. It’s only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings.

It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.