I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.

English had hit upon a splendid joke. The intended to catch me or to bring me down.

The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.