I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter.

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.

We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.

The rewards of tomorrow are safely hidden in the belief of never quitting and not giving up on yourself today

He took her hand without question, without fear, and he never regretted it.

I never stopped loving you, I continued loving you in a different way.

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.

I spent a lot of time [between takes] apologising to Peter Dinklage [Dance's on-screen son, Tyrion Lannister] because I treat him appallingly.

As president, I could run the Trump organization, great, great company, and I could run the company - the country. I'd do a very good job, but I don't want to do that.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.