Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

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 can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

We live in a world that is dominated by war, hate, violence and suspicion. Those are the things that come naturally in this world. So you have to will something else.

Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.

I've always been an encourager at heart.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find older books available there.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Every nation needs two wings to fly. Any bird torn at the wings will never soar the skies.

Sir Alex Ferguson ceases to amaze me as a manager