If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality.

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.

And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.

I seen women take this kind a' help from a man with a look a' relief on their faces. I wondered if these women knew how much easier their lives would be if they did all this stuff for themselves.

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a leader but cannot really trust anyone.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.

[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.

Chess is a great game. No matter how good one is, there is always somebody better. No matter how bad one is, there is always somebody worse.

I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.