The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.
I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.
The best safety device is a careful pilot.
There is no sport equal to that which aviators enjoy while being carried through the air on great white wings.
The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality.
If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.
The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul.
The higher we go, the more mistakes we make.
The only thing worse than a captain who never flew as copilot is a copilot who once was a captain.
The engine is the closest thing to being alive that a machine has ever become.
Airspeed, altitude, and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.
To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home.
You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be? — it is the same the angels breathe.
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
I would like to die in my sleep like my father did, not in screaming terror, like his passengers.
Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.