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

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.

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

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.

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

I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."

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