In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't attach any relevance to which one.

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.

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

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

The role of a philosopher is to create a better way for the future generations.

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.

I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

I haven't tucked a sock in my pants for three years.

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.

We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.

The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.