It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

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?

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life.

I know I will be severely criticized by the interventionists in America when I say we should not enter a war unless we have a reasonable chance of winning.

In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.

There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.

There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.

Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.

We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.

We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have produced man and his natural environment.

Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist, Western European civilization.

Aviation constituted a new and possibly decisive element in preventing or fighting a war, and I was in a unique position to observe European aviation especially in its military aspects.

When environment changes there must be a corresponding change in life.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

To fall in love with God is the greatest of all romances to seek him the greatest adventure to find him the greatest human achievement.

A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.

I'm very good at deconstructing. I'm a very good troubleshooter for why something is unlikely to work. And most everything is unlikely to work.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

I see myself as a transient, not an immigrant.

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

All equestrians if they last long enough learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.

I used to have hair so long, my nickname was Pocahontas.

Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

My parents didn't take me to the theatre to see Chekhov when I was growing up - we went to see 'Francie and Josie' once every five years.

I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

I think thats the single best piece of advice constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

If you're masochistic enough to program in ADA, we're not going to stop you.