This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I'm not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation, communications, repairing the burners, taking care of the equipment.

The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.

I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.

I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

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.

If you think, you can become successful and you are willing to learn and work at success, one day you will become successful.

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

I feel comfortable tweeting things that I would never feel comfortable saying in a real life conversation, or even in other places on the internet.

We can’t live without hope. When we keep hoping, we keep living.

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.

The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.