The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.