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.

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.

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.

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.

People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.

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 passengers to keep learning how to do it better.

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.