Heaven isnot a place, and it isnot atime.Heaven isbeing perfect.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

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

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.