Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.

Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live?

I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.

I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.

Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.

I wanted to see New York . . . so I tried to see how fast I could do it in.