To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.

Where I live, everything is very small.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.