Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.

Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with fears, or if we trust the fears of others, we'll choose a path in which our city falls into the sea, or a path in which a third world war vaporizes us, or whatever other disaster is most thrilling or horrifying or fascinating for us.

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

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.