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

In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It is the way a humble person meets life or death.

I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.

There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

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