Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

"What is my highest sense of right?" we can ask at any decision point in our lives and not worry about if this is going to lose us a lot of money or is this going to make us a lot of money or whatever.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

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.

You seek problems because you need their gifts.

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.