"What kind of man would live where there is no danger? I don't believe in taking foolish chances. But nothing can be accomplished by not taking a chance at all."

"I am not a hero. I am just a man who has been given an opportunity."

"We must keep America for Americans."

"The only time I feel alive is when I'm flying."

"I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this w…"