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.

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.

Any idiot or imbecile can easily make enemies

Is that all you've got? A few tricks and quick feet? That's no way to enforce your bold tongue!

I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.

Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love.

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

People crave attention and appreciation more than they do bread.

To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.

Amidst all your cries and laughter let your mind take a moment off, and go still. Look at this moment, this moment alone, and go still.