I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

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.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

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

She didn't mean to be sexy that moment, but even a winter nightgown couldn't hide that lovely outline. When will I outgrow my simple-minded fascination with the form she had happened to choose for her body? Never, I thought