“It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy.”

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

The simplest things are often the truest.

There’s a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

I’ve owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we’ve had long conversations in flight.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we’re one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven’t learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn’t learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn.

Ladies, your happiness is very important to us. You have to understand that. Because when you’re happy, you let us touch you.

I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

I’ll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever.

One of the greatest gifts I’ve ever gotten is my daughter.

The good will is all – and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

A happy genius is the gift of nature.

It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…