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

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

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

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

Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than life itself. This gallant Air Force hero will be remembered because he made his final contribution to aviation in the dangerous role of test pilot of an untried experimental plane, a deed that places him among the stout-hearted pioneers who gave their lives in the conquest of sky and space.

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

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.