The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

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.

When we put up with any situation we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.