While passenger numbers have doubled in the past 20 years, the industry remains scandalously inefficient.

Working anti-social shifts in a difficult environment is undoubtedly challenging. But even militant staff may privately concede that some of the working conditions they enjoy are unusually benign.

There is inevitably a trade-off between staffing and safety, and as a society we must decide where that balance should be struck.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.

Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second.

The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.

The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul.