Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

There is something that is transcendental about when we are immersed in that which we most love.

You seek problems because you need their gifts.

The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

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.

What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication.