Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.

Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.

Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality.

I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.