“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”

“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.”

“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”

“I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.”

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

“Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.”

“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.”

“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”

“There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.”

“Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it again.”

“There are two kinds of stones as everyone knows one which rolls.”