If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.

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

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

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.