“A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.

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

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.

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

I’ve owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we’ve had long conversations in flight.

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

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we’re one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

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

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

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven’t learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn’t learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.

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.

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

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.

I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.

Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.

To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.

Lying is before you and the grave is in front of you.

No. One. Comes. Before You.

A lot of people kind of want to wait until you’re off a show before they book you into a movie.

I think that Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs, like, a pump-up. And I think Jock Jams is a classic pump-up. Like before she starts working, she needs that.

Before you begin, sit for a moment and take a couple of deep breaths. You want to be calm and prepared to maintain mental focus