We can start working with time if you wish," Chiang said, "till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to begin to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

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

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.

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.

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.