Quotes

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Fear is a feeling. Courage is a choice.

If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.

Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Don't argue with a fool.

Happiness is having something to do, something to look forward to, and someone to love.

A majority: Two lions and a lamb deciding what’s for lunch.

Three things you must ask yourself before you say anything:

Does this need to be said?
Does this need to be said by me?
Does this need to be said by me now?

Primum non nocere.

If I had three hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the axe.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward some are strong at the broken places.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

A setback is a setup for a step up.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name.

Everything has negatives. You choose something for its positives and deal with the negatives.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

"High Flight" link to iconic aviation poem