There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.
Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.
At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.