A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money.

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.

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

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.

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.

He who risks nothing has nothing.

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.

The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.

Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!

True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.