If you say three things in a row that make sense, people will vote for you.

Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?

You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees.

Somebody who knows what they're doing, who has a good track record, they come across as very articulate, bright and looking for a challenge - that's absolutely my kind of hire.

The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T.

It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.

There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.

Declare the sacred utterances.

I feel like nothing is impossible.

We have contact with alien cultures.

I'd like to know that your love Is love I can be sure of.

Where the material ends, art begins.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

When My Love Returns from the Ladies Room, Will I Be Too Old to Care?

I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn.

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.