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.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.

We don't have rights until we claim them.