At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.

The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations.

We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

It's not the lies he tells, it's the seductive way in which he persuades you they are not true.

Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.

It is easier to kill what we do not know.

Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her. She didn't belong here! What had she done?

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.

When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it

The boundaries of your life are merely a creation of the self.

You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.