I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love.

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

From time to time it's fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to ourselves, 'I am the sorcerer, and when I open my eyes I shall see a world that I have created, and for which I and only I am completely responsible.' Slowly then, eyelids open like curtains lifting stage-center. And sure enough, there's our world, just the way we've built it.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

Before you'll change, something important must be at risk.