Quotes

Fear is a feeling. Courage is a choice.

—Unknown

If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.

—George Harrison paraphrase of Lewis Carroll

Day by day, dear Lord, of thee three things I pray: to see thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, follow thee more nearly, day by day.

—Richard of Chichester, 1197-1253

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
—Buckminster Fuller

Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.

—Captain A. G. Lamplugh, chief underwriter for the British Aviation Insurance Company

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

—Jack London

Don't argue with a fool.

—Proverbs 26:4

Happiness is having something to do, something to look forward to, and someone to love.

—Unknown

A majority: Two lions and a lamb deciding what’s for lunch.

—Unknown

Three things you must ask yourself before you say anything:

Does this need to be said?
Does this need to be said by me?
Does this need to be said by me now?

—Craig Ferguson

The promise of faith is not the absence of suffering but the presence of grace.

—A paraphrase of various New Testament insights about suffering

Primum non nocere.

—"First do no harm," Hippocrates

If I had three hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the axe.

—Abraham Lincoln

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

—Martin Luther King, Jr.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward some are strong at the broken places.

—Ernest Hemingway

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

—Margaret Mead

And ye shall know the Trueth, and the Trueth shall make you free.

—King James Bible, John 8:32, 1611 edition

It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

—Rick (Humphrey Bogart) in the 1942 film "Casablanca"

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

—Maya Angelou

A setback is a setup for a step up.

—Unknown

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

—Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

—Aeschylus, quoted by Sen. Robert Kennedy in Indianapolis the night Martin Luther King was assassinated

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

—Martin Luther King, Jr.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

—Mark Twain

And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name.

—Theseus from William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Everything has negatives. You choose something for its positives and deal with the negatives.

—Ted

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

—2 Timothy 4:7

"High Flight" link to aviation's most famous poem.
—John Gillespie Magee