Every problem in your life carries a gift inside it.

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

In the highest sense, we are all creatures of light. And I have a very difficult time talking with people who are cynical about the world. "The world is no damn good, and we're all animals," and that kind of thing. Well, I'm an animal.

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