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

Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do.

The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

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

The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

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

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