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.

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

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

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

Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.

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.