"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

"The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune."

"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship."

"I have a feeling there is just about one more good flight left in my system and I hope this trip is it. Anyway, when I have finished this job, I mean to give up long-distance 'stunt' flying."

"Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture."