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

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.

No borders, just horizons – only freedom.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

Everyone has ocean’s to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?

Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

If enough of us keep trying, we’ll get someplace.

Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

Sometimes there are people who don’t know how to make action movies – and that situation isn’t a good one.

Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.

So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.