In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!

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.

Nothing stings quite like an unanswered text message.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already. --Chopper Jim Chopin

If God has given you a message, go and give it to the people as God has given it to you. It is a stupid thing to try to be eloquent.

A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.

I am a lonely runner, but I am a long-distance runner.

Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.

She wore white heirloom lace about her throat And in her hair a bright golden feather A pearl like a plum hung ripe from her neck But her smile fetched ten gold together

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding