It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.

If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.

If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.

Money lost-nothing lost, Health lost-little lost, Spirit lost-everything lost.

The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Your faithfulness and mercies forever abide, we trust in You Jehovah - Ahavah, The Lord is love.

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.

See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.

Make me an instrument of thy peace.

I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity.

I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?

Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.