“You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.”

Learning is finding out what you already know.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

The simplest things are often the truest.

There’s a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

I’ve owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we’ve had long conversations in flight.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.

Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we’re one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven’t learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn’t learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?

The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women.

I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.

With Anglo-American capitalism increasingly under attack, those who believe in the power of free markets and enterprise to create wealth and social progress must stand up and be counted and champion our way of life.

The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

I want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.