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

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."

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

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.

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.

Urgency and despair don't get along well.

We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

Every man should arm himself as quickly as he could, and come to the King.

Everest? Don't forget it's really just a big pile of rocks.

While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.

Being a professional does not have a very high standard.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.