I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.

Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

That's what we're trained to do.

We have made flying so cheap, I'm afraid we are going to make it cheap at any cost.

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules — we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.

Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of).

Consume life before it spoils.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

Penalties are awful, unfair, but what else is there?

I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.