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.

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.

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

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.

Life's waters flow from darkness. Search the darkness, don't run from it.

It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.

Even before I had a daughter, I was passionate about global women's issues, but now that she's here, I'm even more inspired to leave a better world for Evangeline.

Auguries are oft subtle...and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether.

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that might seem.

Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.

I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.

Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.