Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.

If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but what kind we should embrace.

I never met a girl I didn't meet

I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.

I never exceed the posted speed limit.

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

How many people out there really set a budget?

What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial.

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.