Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.

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.

Whatever territory you choose to explore and then invest all your time into it, you will be amazed how easy it is to become great.

He was far scarier than any ghost could be. He was real, and he was a monster.

When an influencing idea comes to life, people cannot exactly predict all its inevitable consequences.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

Be it ever so decadent, there's no place like home.

Friends are the angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.