Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.

The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do.

I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

The better I shoot, the less I have to maneuver.

The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

How could death not be appealing, when the only thing that gave him comfort in life was being unconscious?

Only the good die young, the bad petite-mort

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

I don't know karate, but I know crazy.

I promise you, anybody given the choice of that kind of money or having to make a phone call to tell your dad that something like that has happened, it’s not worth it.

Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds.