Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.

I belong to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane. There is no space alotted for another pilot to tune the radios in the weather or make the calls to air traffic control centers or to help with the emergency procedures or to call off the airspeed down final approach. There is no one else to break the solitude of a long cross-country flight. There is no one else to make decisions.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.

What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.