My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.