I am not such an egotist as to believe that God has spared me because I am I. I believe there is work for me to do and that I am spared to do it, just as you are.

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.

I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.

I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.

I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.

Seafood on the grill can be intimidating if you don't know what you are doing. It's really quite easy

I would speak up if I see someone being rude to someone.

My hair had been dyed blonde for Dredd. After Dredd, I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during Being Flynn.

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching