The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.

Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.

There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of our lives, a family who wants to believe we're not pawns, we're not victims on this planet, that knows we have the power within us here and now to change the world we see around us!

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.

The conversation between Fletcher and Jonathan Livingston Seagull is centered on why some have achieved more than others . . . are they divine . . . ahead of their times . . . Fletcher says, Well, this kind of flying has always been here to be learned by anybody who wanted to discover it; that's got nothing to do with time. We're ahead of the fashion, maybe. Ahead of the way most gulls fly. Poor Fletch. Don't you believe what your eyes are telling you? All they show is limitations. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.