I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.

I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.

I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.

In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with humans.

Earthbound souls know only the underside of the atmosphere in which they live . . . but go higher - above the dust and water vapor - and the sky turns dark until one can see the stars at noon.

Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

I'd have given my right eye to be an astronaut.

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.

And to live without risk for me would have been tantamount to death.

Those who incite violence have no business lecturing others about unity.

I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.

All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.

Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.

Those who will not start, will never finish.

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

Humility is a priceless virtue; however, it takes a lot of self-emptying to cultivate it.

Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.

The money from every unit being sold is what I feel every artist should see.

It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.