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.

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.

It's not whether your thoughts are in tune with the other's sensibilities or not - But are you at peace with yourself is what matters the most!

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.

This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.

I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies. [Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte. Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.]