What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

She didn't mean to be sexy that moment, but even a winter nightgown couldn't hide that lovely outline. When will I outgrow my simple-minded fascination with the form she had happened to choose for her body? Never, I thought

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.

Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.

Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take 'em on.