“You can do it! You believe! Feel it in your gizzard. You are a creature of flight. Fly, my children. Fly!”

“When you fly a balloon you don’t file a flight plan; you go where the wind goes. You feel like part of the air. You almost feel like part of eternity, and you just float along.”

“My son, I caution you to keep
The middle way, for if your pinions dip
Too low the waters may impede your flight;
And if they soar too high the sun may scorch them.
Fly midway.”
Insruit et natum: Medioque ut limite curras, Icare, ait, moneo. Ne, si demissior ibis, Unda gravet pennas; si celsior, ignis adurat. Inter utrumque vola.

“Can I love someone… and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.”

“You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.”

“When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!”

“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 will see the way to fly.”

“If you want it, you can fly, you just have to trust you a lot.”

“It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.”

“You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”