That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.

Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.