Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through the sense of sight. When you see without feeling, you are still partly blind; you lack the inner light that brings awareness. Awareness requires the interplay of every faculty, the use of your entire being as an eye.

It is not the willingness to kill on the part of our soldiers which most concerns me. That is an inherent part of war. It is our lack of respect for even the admirable characteristics of our enemy; for courage, for suffering, for death, for his willingness to die for his beliefs, for his companies and squadrons which go forth, one after another, to annihilation against our superior training and equipment.

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

I would rather live one day in Maui than one month in New York.