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

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.