Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.

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.

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.

Listen to your instinct. It is your greatest treasure. Your beauty in the outside reflects your inner beauty.

When I don't like the name of a place or a person I always imagine a new one and always think of them so. " Anne of Green Gables

...wear a hat and some old lady shoes, and you can do whatever you want.

Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be who you are.

You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want.

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.

Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

Some people just have a natural gift and some people really have to work at it and I'm more of the second kind. I always had to grind it out, where from him it just flowed.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.