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

- Chesley Sullenberger

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.

- Chesley Sullenberger

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.

- Chesley Sullenberger

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

- Chesley Sullenberger

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

- Chesley Sullenberger

That's what we're trained to do.

- Chesley Sullenberger

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

- Chesley Sullenberger

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 pa…

- Chesley Sullenberger

With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules — we're all working harder and longer th…

- Chesley Sullenberger