I’m lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It’s not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‚Bye!‘

Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.

I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.

I’ve been really, really fortunate.

Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor’s dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

I’ve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do ‚A Cook’s Tour;‘ I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn’t already.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we’re both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

I’ve always been fascinated by everything with wings.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney – for his family and our country.

I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

I don’t fly because of the enormous climate impact of aviation per person.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

The Corps is in good hands, and it’s been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it’s time to go.

Imagine the privilege the Lord has given us of sustaining His prophet, whose counsel will be untainted, unvarnished, unmotivated by any personal aspiration, and utterly true!

I’m lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.

None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti’s example.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

I’m not saying that people should stop flying. I’m just saying it needs to be easier to be climate neutral.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

I bear a charmed life.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

I’ve been very fortunate.

By stopping flying, you don’t only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that the climate crisis is a real thing and that helps push a political movement.