Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.

What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best.

Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.

He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

What I'm doing is going to do some good and we're going to change the world.

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.

I've thought about living the koala's life, but you may need to petition the government quarantine rules to make it happen. Quarantine would make me extra grumpy.

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?

Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.

I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.