Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

So much of who we are is where we have been.

Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

It's easier to die if others around you are dying.

Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness But it's better than drinkin' alone.

What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.

I want to see a Jew in the White house.

I've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere.

Standing at the bus stop sucking on a lollipop Once she gets pumping its hard to make the hottie stop

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?

On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."