The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.
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.
The best way to do it, is to do it!
The soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold restless day and count it fair.
My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow’s planes.
Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.
The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.
In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
I did for the fun of it.
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little thing; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear nor mountain heights, where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings. How can life grant us boon of living, compensate for dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate unless we dare the souls dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold resistless day and count it fair.
I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.
What do dreams know of boundaries.
Perhaps I have something of a chip on my shoulder when it comes to modern feminine education. Often youngsters are sadly miscast. I have known girls who should be tinkering with mechanical things instead of making dresses, and boys who would do better at cooking than engineering.
We’re always pushing through, hurrying on our long way, trying to get to some other place instead of enjoying the place we’d already got to.
Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education. You will find the unexpected everywhere as you go through life. By adventuring about, you become accustomed to the unexpected.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.
Character is destiny.
But the fun of it is worth the price.