When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.
It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.
In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.
The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.
The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.
public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.
I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!
The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.