1. “If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee for continuity is quality.”
2. “Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.”
3. “Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.”
4. “I would have a million friends than a million dollars.”
5. “The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. it is the easiest thing in the world o die. The hardest is to live.”
6. “I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.”
7. “Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.”
8. “The experience fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.”
9. “The key to success, is to think things through and then follow through.”
10. “The four cornerstones of character on which the structure off this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.”
