It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.

We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty.

Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.

There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars

The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.