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 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.

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.

The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

I loved and lost and survived.

When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.

Within the universe there is a pure light. It is a light that is beyond all darkness. It does not give way to anything. It is the light of existence, the dharmakaya.

The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.

I have never listened to authority. It is not in my DNA.

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.

My mom is the greatest mom in the whole wide world. She's done everything for me to make my dreams come true.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart.