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

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

There is a kind of silver spiderweb that's spun around the world, and the strands of that web are certain loves and certain understandings. And if we follow those, and if we walk those strands, we're going to meet others at the intersections who have been walking the same way across this web. And when we meet, there's a kind of "I know who you are."

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.

I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.