If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

[Politicians] - they'll give you everything you want to your face - and then, as you walk away, they'll shoot you in the back because it's fun to watch you die.

A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money.

The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate well. And I am very good at detail. I love detail.

I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway.

The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.'

If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying is voluntary.

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

This is a nasty, rotten business.

Why didn't you let me die? You could have finally been free.""I gave up trying to imagine a world without you." - Essallie & Kayden

It is because of pain that you value pleasure, sorrow that you value joy, despair that you value hope, war that you value peace, and hate that you value love.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

Guilt chilled me more than all of this rain combined.

Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.