Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939

Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.

To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.

I could never be so lucky again

The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

Know "Yourself" to know everything else

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.

No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.