““he who tried flying will go on looking at the sky, because there he was and there he wants to return.” “chi ha provato il volo camminerà guardando il cielo perché là è stato e là vuole tornare.””
“As David [ancient King of Israel] said, when needing to restore his relationship with the Lord, ‘I will not give the Lord what has cost me nothing’.”
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
“When you’re stretched like a rubber band, the only thing to do is FLY!”
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
“I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”