Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall. To stall in the air is for them disgrace and it is dishonor.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

You seek problems because you need their gifts.

All of us are called by something in this world that attracts us. And it doesn't matter what it is -- you can be an engine mechanic or an aviator or you can be someone who loves their flower garden or the world of commerce or sailboats.

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

Fear is all the fear of some loss: I'm going to lose something. If we declare, and if we know in our hearts, I already have everything that I need: I have life, I have creativity, I have joy, I have nourishment. I have everything I need, and if we just say, It doesn't depend on my having a physical body to do it, then everything opens up.

A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe.

The opposite of loneliness is not togetherness, it's intimacy.

Thought plus belief equals manifestation.

This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.

Perspective -- Use It or Lose It.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

Mistakes -- call them unexpected learning experiences.

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

If you argue for your limitations they are yours.