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

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.

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 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.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

The middleweight division is one of the most exciting divisions in the sport. Fighters can punch like heavyweights and have the speed of the lightweights. You have the best of world worlds.

We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.

I'm not going to waste a second feeling sorry for myself because I'm not a bigger star than I am. I can walk down the street in most places in the world and I still drive really nice cars.