Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. – Amelia Earhart
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. – Amelia Earhart
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. – Amelia Earhart
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. – Amelia Earhart
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. But when we pick ourselves up we find our bones are, after all, not broken; while level enough and not unpleasing is the new terrace which lies unexplored before us. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts, 1931