I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

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

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

I am not such an egotist as to believe that God has spared me because I am I. I believe there is work for me to do and that I am spared to do it, just as you are.

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.

The better I shoot, the less I have to maneuver.