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.

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.

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.

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.

As a question is created, it creates.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

Float with me in the world of ether.

By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.

Chris Waddle is off the pitch at the moment - exactly the position he is at his most menacing.

Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyse us.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.