Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

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.

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.

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.

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

What do we want to be prefects for?” said George, looking revolted at the very idea. “It’d take all the fun out of life.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.

Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?

Let's build Paradise again.