There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

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.

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.

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.

Your blessings far outnumber your troubles.

I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song.

Sometimes there is no time to wait for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your voyage start and let the storm be your path!

I don't have to live that way anymore

Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.

Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.