"I owned the world that hour as I rode over it... free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them."

"The most important thing in life is to find your purpose and to live it with passion."

"I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve."

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

"We must not allow our nation to become a melting pot of races."