I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.

The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.

The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.

The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.

Find the enemy and shoot him down. Anything else is nonsense.

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done.

Reading is your first line of defense against an empty head.

I have been consistent by staying true to who I am and will continue to sing the type of songs that those who have continued to support my career expect from me.

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

I believe that what's much more important is not what you say, but what you do. And I am a doer.

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some memoraboble homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin' it, even if they don't know what it means.