Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the tail was light. Watch it... Lovely.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

I wanted to stay this way forever.Which, it turns out, was exactly five more minutes.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

Wonder at everything and ask, why?Love everything and wonder, why?

Our world needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction. – Mister Rogers.

You can't be yourself unless you accept the man in the mirror

Every layer of complexity creates greater distance from life’s simple truths.

The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an artist. But I do love children's books.