The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

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.

In my own book-signings, I find humility. It’s always humbling when people go out of their way to come visit with me and by some of my books.

Society: an inferno of saviors!

I am quite bereft that I've lost the emoticons from my latest new old berry. Is there anyway [sic] I can add them.

A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.

Mommy. It's just the one thing you don't want to mess up.

... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

What's important to have is a president that's focused on jobs, the economy, giving our children a better future and keeping our nation strong and safe.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

The people in the front lines are my customers. I need to keep them happy. And, the best way to take care of your customers is to take care of your workers.