Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.

and this passion, like bad kerosene, barely burns.

Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.

The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.

...forever isn't long enough to have you in my life.

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Get mad, then get over it.

May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.

The chief source of problems is solutions.

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.

I wonder who is going to finish second.