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

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

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

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

Dare to take chances

Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares, A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.

Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

An idea doesn't count if you can't use it

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.

It was hard to leave my school. I've been going to the same school since kindergarden.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.