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.

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

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

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality.

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.

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

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