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

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

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, really fortunate.

I bear a charmed life.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

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

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.

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.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

I’ve always been fascinated by everything with wings.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

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

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

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The knack of 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.

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

We fly to 106 kilometers. We’ve always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because we didn’t want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you’re an astronaut or not.

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.

I’ve been very fortunate.

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?

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

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.

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

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.