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

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

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.

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

A great sage is like a tree, he lives just to help others, just to make this world beautiful.

Leave no livid life in your days but vivid days in your life

In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

BLOOD, SWEAT & RESPECT. First two you GIVE. Last one you EARN.

The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.

It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?

I never asked for stimulus.

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.