I Don't Believe In Taking Unnecessary Risks,

Instead Of Agitating For War, The Jewish Groups In This Country Should Be Opposing It In Every Possible Way, For They Will Be Among The First To Feel Its Consequences. Tolerance Is A Virtue That Depends Upon Peace And Strength. History Shows That It Cannot Survive War And Devastation. A Few Very Far-sighted Jewish People Realize This And Stand Opposed To Intervention. But The Majority Still Do Not. Their Greatest Danger To This Country Lies In Their Ownership And Influence In Our Motion Pictures, Our Press, Our Radio, And Our Government.

I Know There Is Infinity Beyond Ourselves. I Wonder If There Is Infinity Within.

I May Be Flying A Complicated Airplane, Rushing Through Space, But In This Cabin I'm Surrounded By Simplicity And Thoughts Set Free Of Time. How Detached The Intimate Things Around Me Seem From The Great World Down Below. How Strange Is This Combination Of Proximity And Separation. That Ground - Seconds Away - Thousands Of Miles Away. This Air, Stirring Mildly Around Me. That Air, Rushing By With The Speed Of A Tornado, An Inch Beyond. These Minute Details In My Cockpit. The Grandeur Of The World Outside. The Nearness Of Death. The Longness Of Life.

I Began To Feel That I Lived On A Higher Plane Than The Skeptics Of The Ground; One That Was Richer Because Of Its Very Association With The Element Of Danger They Dreaded, Because It Was Freer Of The Earth To Which They Were Bound. In Flying, I Tasted A Wine Of The Gods Of Which They Could Know Nothing. Who Valued Life More Highly, The Aviators Who Spent It On The Art They Loved, Or These Misers Who Doled It Out Like Pennies Through Their Antlike Days? I Decided That If I Could Fly For Ten Years Before I Was Killed In A Crash, It Would Be A Worthwhile Trade For An Ordinary Life Time.

After My Death, The Molecules Of My Being Will Return To The Earth And Sky. They Came From The Stars. I Am Of The Stars.