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

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

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

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down. His trained hand and eye and judgment are as much a part of his armament as his machinegun, and a fiftyfifty chance is the worst he will take or should take except where the show is of the kind that . . . justifies the sacrifice of plane or pilot.

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

I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.