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

Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or by t….

Life without risks is not worth living..

The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical eng….

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which….

All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social exi….

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

We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told u….

The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created..

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it..

Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly just….

I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How deta….

In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally impor….

The readiness to blame a dead pilot for an accident is nauseating, but it has been the tendency ever since I can remember. What pilot has not been in….

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead..

Individuals are custodians of the life stream -- temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so ma….

It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciati….

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..

The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of th….

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

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..