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

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.

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

As long as Simon didn’t think about the past, the past couldn’t hurt him. But, increasingly, he couldn’t help himself.There was too much pleasure in the pain.

Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they will tell you their own stories.

A woman in Germany gave birth to a 13 1/2 pound baby. That baby was so fat his first word was strudel.

Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.

America's all about freedom of choice, and I really hope that in the future we still have a great choice of vehicles.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.

I am terrible at relationships.

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.