An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

Reality is divinely indifferent.

Are you saying I can fly?” “I say you are free.

Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.

Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.

Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There’s only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.

Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.

Before you’ll change, something important must be at risk.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

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

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.

Everything in this book may be wrong. – The Savior’s Manual.

The only true law is that which leads to freedom,  Jonathan said. There is no other.

That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.

I’ll quote the truth wherever I find it thank you.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that’s going to matter is ‘What is the quality of our love?’

The simplest things are often the truest.

Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.

Sometimes when you say goodbye, that’s the right thing to do in a relationship.

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

How can we resent the life we’ve created for ourselves? Who’s to blame, who’s to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we’ve made choices by default, when we haven’t designed our lives on our own.

Do you ever have the feeling you’re a tourist on earth?

Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.

There is something to astrology for those who believe in astrology, as there is something to medicine for those who believe in medicine. Every system works when we give our heart to it.

Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don’t have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

You don’t want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.

Anybody who’s ever mattered, anybody who’s ever been happy, anybody who’s ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

One must first learn to fall if one would fly.

Thought plus belief equals manifestation.

Hate is love without enough data.

Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight – how to get from shore to food and back again.

Whatever enchants also guides and protects.

The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.

Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.

By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

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

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning’s cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

Perspective – Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you’re forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.

Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

An easy life doesn’t teach us anything. In the end it’s the learning that matters: what we’ve learned and how we’ve grown.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.

The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.

He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them.

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn’t have limits.

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.

I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel.

We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.

The gull sees farthest who flies highest.

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

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

One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.

I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.

I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.

You can’t solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don’t want problems solved.

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Avoid problems, and you’ll never be the one who overcame them.

We design our lives through the power of choices.

You wait a lifetime to meet someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that someone, all along, has been you.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

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.

The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don’t think. Don’t care.