You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

True enjoy stories never ever have endings.

How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.

There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.