Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.

This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.

Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in one sweeping view, in reassurance that nature still exists on her own, without a chain-link fence to hold her.

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.