Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.

What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to die to go to heaven.

Things come apart much easier than they go together.

Sometimes looking so hard can make one blind.

What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.

Love is a conquest! Love is war!

All we can do is everything we can do. (David Axelrod)

We were ten feet away when we triggered the First Law of Percy Jackson

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.

To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before!

I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well.

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.