American aviator, author, & inventor (1902-1974)
God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
Reader's Digest, July 1972
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
Autobiography of Values
What kind of man would live where there is no danger? I don't believe in taking foolish chances. But nothing can be accomplished by not taking a chance at all.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
attributed, Lindbergh: Flight's Enigmatic Hero
I hope you boys will excuse me, but I would rather the State Police answered all questions. I am sure you understand how I feel.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
comment to reporters after his son's kidnapping, The New York Times, March 2, 1932
I saw a fleet of fishing boats.... I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool. An hour later I saw land.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
New York Times, May 23, 1927
I appreciated the reception which had been prepared for me, and had intended taxiing up to the front of the hangars, but no sooner had my plane touched the ground than a human sea swept toward it. I saw there was a danger of killing people with my propeller, and I quickly came to a stop. That reception was the most dangerous part of the trip. Never in my life have I seen anything like that human sea. It isn't clear to me yet just what happened. Before I knew it I had been hoisted out of the cockpit, and one moment was on the shoulders of some men and the next moment on the ground.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
interview with New York Times correspondent in Paris shortly after completing the first solo trans-Atlantic flight, May 22, 1927