Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Life without risks is not worth living.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .

I would rather live one day in Maui than one month in New York.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

You must get close to people and then you know who they are.

If it's the lack of forbidden you're worried about. You could still forbid me to do things." "What kind of things?" She felt him smile against her mouth. "Things like this.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."

I like to be who I am.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.

I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

The thing is not to leave unfinished business; make every day count.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.