I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

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.

I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

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

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

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.