What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best.

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

What are you doing?" she whispered. He wasn't sure why she was whispering, but he kept his voice just as low. "I want to taste you.

Disorder is the least tolerable up sinful conditions.

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

I wasn't sure how I'd feel about breastfeeding, but quickly realized its brilliance.

I would never say, "I'm going to do these things in a video to be a role model so people make me a role model." I want to be myself.

I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!

Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.

Choose your friends with caution. Plan your future with purpose. Frame your life with faith.

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.