In response to how he checked the weather, "I just whip out my blue card with a hole in it and read what it says: 'When color of card matches color of sky, FLY!'"

There were two dawns that morning. One the orderly sunrise of God, followed by man's fireball at the base of that rocket.

Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.

My first wife didn't like to fly, either.

When asked by someone how much money flying takes: Why, all of it!

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

No one should know his entire fate. It's too dangerous and too depressing. Just keep going, do your best, and hope it's good enough. That's all any of us can do.

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

I played 100 shows before I got paid

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

If the gas pedal on your car is shaped like a bare foot, you might be a redneck.

I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off.

If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.