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

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.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

Our religion doesn’t demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.

Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.

If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

It’s better to make a difference than to make a point.

We were all born carrying a promise — a promise to make the world better — and there’s a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.

Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.

If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones. After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.