Whatever Boelcke told us was taken as Gospel!

Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.

The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.

The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.

The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.

Find the enemy and shoot him down. Anything else is nonsense.

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

I don't know, Alexander, sometimes it gets so bad you can't think of nothing better to do than make it worse.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

The size of your organization is directly related to your ability to enforce the rules.