Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.