I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I sit there in the firelight and see them a….

Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes o….

A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his….

Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have….

No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you se….

To me, desert has the quality of darkness; none of the shapes you see in it are real or permanent. Like night, the desert is boundless, comfortless, ….

One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this wi….

For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an under….

I have a trunk containing continents..

We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may ….

Success breeds confidence..

There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it….

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words..

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work..

But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning things--and of ending things I neve….

Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it..

In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one an….

A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand..

A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page tha….

all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it..

I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it..