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

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.

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

Belief gets in the way of learning.

You are the source of the sun.And I am the willow's shadow. Oh, you have struck me on the head, Wretch that I am, on fire am I.

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.

Everything that you want, you are already that.