For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

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.

It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.

A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls

Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.

Jesus Christ can't hit a golf ball straight. It's virtually impossible - at best it's an accident.

Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

My hair didn't even move an inch and I was in and out of the water. My hair's windproof, waterproof, soccerproof, motocycleproof. I'm not sure if my hair's bulletproof I'm not willin' to try that.

If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.