Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.

The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do.

I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

The better I shoot, the less I have to maneuver.

The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.

People are easily shocked when their routine is disrupted and their ease of travel is restricted. We are dealing with a complete new face of terrorism - killing for the sake of killing.

I don't think you're human unless you go through some [self-destructi on].

We must seek to be firmly rooted and converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

No one has to give you permission to make music or make art.

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

The unprepared speaker has a right to be afraid.

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, its something that can work for you - especially in the audition room.