When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.

Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.

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

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

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

He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form. "Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?" "The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.