There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.

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

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.

There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.