Never wait for trouble.

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.

Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.

....the perfect beauty of the pattern that each raindrop makes as it joins its puddle.

Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found.

It is impossible for the sane to truly understand madness.

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

Never lose your sense of the superficial.

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

...physics is the study of the structure of consciousness.

I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat