Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all