“And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.”

Or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.

We couldn’t stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

Which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.

The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of ’42, in Russia.

That day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that’s for sure.

You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.

I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter.

Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air.

I made a written report which is still today in existence.

Superior technical achievements – used correctly both strategically and tactically

Never abandon the possibility of attack.

“He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing,” is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

During the Battle of Britain the question “fighter or fighter-bomber?” had been decided once and for all

I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm

An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side.

Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.

First sentences are doors to worlds.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me… the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture’s power to construct our days and nights.

The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.