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

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?

Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare writer who comes alive on a page does it by giving of himself, by writing of meanings, and not just of fact or of things that have happened to him. The writers of flight who have done this are usually found together in a special section on private bookshelves.

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.