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.

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.

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

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.

No...he lives to create art, but he loves to murder.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.

I feel like when you're dealing with your main character, it has to be relatable and feel grounded, and that's the kind of acting I like to do anyway.

Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.

Don't stint on foreplay - or afterplay. Be inventive!