Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.

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.

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.

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

One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.

The heart is the anchor to all things, be it love to hate, or light to dark.

If you have to hang a man you could have put on a better trail, you aren't entitled to own a rope.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

I am crushed by your poor opinionBut will endeavor to carry on.

He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

To be somebody, you must last.

It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.