Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.

What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best.

Help those who need it, not who want it.

Seeking God first will always put us in the correct position and aim us in the right direction to move into the future God has for us.

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.

My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.

There is no place in Ohio where you couldn't have drugs delivered to you in 15, 20 minutes.

I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.

You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.