It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.

Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.