If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.

If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?

Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.

You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.

There is a purpose in life’s struggles. Without them, we stay the same.

There is an earthly reality and a heavenly reality, prayer connects both.

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.

The race car is harder to drive. If there was an in-car camera that could have watched me saw on that wheel for 500 laps, there wasn't one time I could relax.

I need someone who always wants more out of life. Like me - I'm just that way.

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with.

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.