Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

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.

If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Every war is a war against children.

The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

Start right now to put into practice some of the things that have been taught to us today.

I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.