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

“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.”

“My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passenge...”

“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.”

“When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It ...”

“High FlightOh! I have slipped the surly bonds of EarthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;Sunward Ive climbed, and joined the tumbling mirthof sun-split clouds, and done a hundred thin...”

“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future wi...”

“Up there the world is divided into bastards and suckers. Make your choice.”

“The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.”

“If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can esta...”

“I have faith in the judicial system.”

“There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.”

“But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.”

“I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.”