Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

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 don’t hear the crows of the roosters in the mornings, you are one cursed city fellow!

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

If there is a strong will, there will always be a path even in the middle of precipices!

Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. -Dionysus