"I honesty thought it was over."

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."

"To my mother, Elizabeth Basler Rickenbacker, with love and appreciation; her inspiration throughout life never failed…"

"Our American doughboys were pushing in on both sides of the salient. We could see them moving forward. Their bayonets…"

"As the dinner progressed, it became clear that, of all those present, only Vansittart believed that the Germans would…"

"When we arrived home, we found the situation in the United States no better. In vain did I attempt to describe to our…"

"The Prime Minister's car picked me up at the Savoy Hotel, It appeared to be European-royalty day at the Chequers, wit…"

"It seems only yesterday, in 1934, that Eastern Air Lines was a struggling little company pioneering in a new and untr…"

"Do you realize that we are the only people on the planet to see these things?"

"There are people who claim that I have taken from you everything. What I have taken I haven't taken for me, since I l…"