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

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

The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

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

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

I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.

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