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The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.

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

Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.

We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction,

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

I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.

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

I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.

I would rather spend one day on Maui than 30 days in the hospital.

I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car.

One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.

We found a water pipe, tied the flag to it and put it up. Then all hell broke loose below. Troops cheered, ships blew whistles, some men openly wept.

Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.

Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

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.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within.

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?

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

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

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

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.

Life without risks is not worth living.

To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.

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

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

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

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.

We are all consumers and should all be producers.

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

The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

I would rather live one day in Maui than one month in New York.

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

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.

It's almost as easy to stand up as it is to sit down.

If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.

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

The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.

At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.

I've had enough publicity for 15 lives.

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.

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

I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.

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

What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.