What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

Courage isn't inside; it's external. It comes from someone else telling you they believe in you.

The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.

What you do simply proves what you believe.

Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.

Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.