My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

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.

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.

God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness.

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.

You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.

A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.