Charles Lindbergh

“I've seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.”

“Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.”

“What kind of man would live where there is no danger? I don't believe in taking foolish chances. But nothing can be accomplished by not taking a chance at all.”

“Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?”

“If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.”

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

“The human future depends on our ability to combine the knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness.”

“Real freedom is a freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, it is a freedom from your own opinions.”

“It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.”

“I owned the world that hour as I rode the storm.”

“Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.”

“The accumulation of knowledge, the discoveries of science, the products of invention, are not of themselves sufficient to insure the progress of mankind.”