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

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.

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?

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.

In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

I look around and see the things I have, and I remember not having them. That is one thing that keeps me grounded. I’m definitely the same person I was. I never lose me, I never lose the real person.

[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.

Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.

Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

I work myself into the ground. But I think I’m a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.