An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

True love stories never have endings.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

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

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

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

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

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

I finally wentwhere everyone goesand I realizedI wasnevermissingout.

Ugly doesn't have a color. It lives among selfishness and hate

The tiny match we've been fooling with just set off an explosion.

Don't worry if your "you" is small and your rewards are few: Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.

(On Ingrid Bergman) "I didn't do anything I've never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she's saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic."

The most original novelist now writing in English.

My father and mother. I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.