When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Life without risks is not worth living.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .

I would rather live one day in Maui than one month in New York.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.I love you, Julian. But the words don't come.

Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.

on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. "i will.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.