You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

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.

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.

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

It is men who face the biggest problems in the future adjusting to their new and complicated role.

In my world, I am one of the luckiest humans alive.

There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.

In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.

The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

The more respect I had for myself, and the more I took care of myself, the more I understood what I needed out of a partner.

You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

You are the sum total of your choices.