Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.