The passengers were on my aircraft, and I have to take responsibility for that.

Believe the unbelievable, dream the impossible, never take no for an answer.

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. Ive hired many people at very strange places.

As long as we are enjoying ourselves, that's the most important thing

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.

Winning is an amazing feeling. You dont get that in business; you dont get that in many things.

In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbors house.

Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.

Ive lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that theres so much more to Indonesia than just Bali and Jakarta.

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

No one is safe from nature's savagery, not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

I do not believe that I will ever write an adult novel from an animal's point of view unless someday it becomes suddenly appealing to me to make a narrator a mentally ill pet. Never say never.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in the hour of my death.

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.

I don't isolate too much or make the project my god. This helps a lot with negative ideation.

Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.

Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.

Respect the gods and buddhas, but never rely on them.