I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.