One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.

I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die.

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.