Blaise Pascal

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.

Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

You cannot settle the problems of Europe by long-distance telephone calls and telegrams. Round the table we must get!

Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

A tiny leak can sink a ship.