It's difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don't know anybody that's perfect and doesn't have a zit somewhere.

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.

There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it.

Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do and what you want to be, and don't be afraid to pay the price to get it.

Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.

I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

I hope that I can turn some of my fans that might be homophobic or supporters that might be homophobic and say, "You know what, we're all one people. This is love."

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.