Life changed after that jump...I'd suddenly stepped to the highest level of daring, a level above even that which airplane pilots could attain.

Why shouldn't I fly from New York to Paris? I have more than four years of aviation behind me. I've barnstormed over half of the 48 states. I've flown my mail through the worst of nights.

It was not the outer granduer of the Roman but the inner simplicity of the Christian that lived through the ages.

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

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

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