The air is the only place free from prejudices.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

I refused to take no for an answer.

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets.

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

The mind can never foresee its own advance

We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.

The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.

When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order for me to feel this pleasure."