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.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.

Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?

What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.

It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?

The conversation between Fletcher and Jonathan Livingston Seagull is centered on why some have achieved more than others . . . are they divine . . . ahead of their times . . . Fletcher says, Well, this kind of flying has always been here to be learned by anybody who wanted to discover it; that's got nothing to do with time. We're ahead of the fashion, maybe. Ahead of the way most gulls fly. Poor Fletch. Don't you believe what your eyes are telling you? All they show is limitations. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.