He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet.

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.

Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

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.