I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.
The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind; He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.
Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.
Man builds no structure which outlives a book.
Human hopes and human creeds; have their root in human needs.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
No town can hope prosperity and trade, unless the press shall vigorously aid.
It's difficult to paint every day, and people who say they do, probably don't; it's a very demanding thing.
The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. . . . This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. . . . Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.
Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.
It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.