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

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow’s planes.

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

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

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.

Use your fear, it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.

It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

The soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the restless day, And count it fair.

Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.

All trees were once branches with fallen leaves.

Darling, everything is likely to fall in place, only if you make up your mind to stay.

I wonder if anyone thinks of me when they can’t fall asleep at night.

Keep doin’ what you’re doin’, fall in love with what you’re creating, and everything else will fall into place.

It’s contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that’s how it is.

Oh, darling, you fell in love with a girl not worth loving.

Every guy I touch, it’s the same result. When I land, it’s like seeing one of those preachers on TV. When I touch them, they fall out.

When I was six I fell on a broken window. Once I realized no one was coming I stopped screaming and pulled the shard from my middle. This is life for some of us. This has been life for me.