To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.

He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form. "Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?" "The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.

For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices? It took a second to settle down: I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool.

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

Heaven isnot a place, and it isnot atime.Heaven isbeing perfect.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.