I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.

The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.

The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.

The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.

Find the enemy and shoot him down. Anything else is nonsense.

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer 'Thy will be done.'

Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

I try to never look back at how I dressed in the first few seasons of 'Laguna Beach' because it was pretty bad... head-to-toe bad.

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

Men like cars, women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.

No world is without sacrifices. But if we produce casualties, we would also sustain casualties of our own.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.