don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

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

Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.

I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.