It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

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"Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves."

- William Ellery Channing

Leadership

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

- William Ellery Channing

Faith

"Love taking the form of aspiration."

- William Ellery Channing

Aspirations

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

- William Ellery Channing

Strength

"Error is discipline through which we advance."

- William Ellery Channing

Learning from Mistakes

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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

- Leonardo DaVinci

Inspiration

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."

- Socrates

Inspiration

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."

- Wilbur Wright

Inspiration

"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."

- Charles A. Lindbergh

Inspiration

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Inspiration