“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”

I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

The most effective way to do it, is to just do it.

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

When a great adventure is offered, you don’t refuse it.

The best way to do it, is to do it!

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

To worry is to add another hazard.

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

Aviation records don’t fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.

Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.

Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.

The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.

Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.

Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal.