“There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud”

“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”

“I want to soar the boundless blue
Where winds and tempests have their birth,
And let the clouds conceal for me
Not heaven, but the earth.”

“Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.”

“The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit..”

“The broad-backed hippopotamus
Rests on his belly in the mud;
Although he seems so firm to us
He is merely flesh and blood.”

“The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.”

“As the eagle cannot soar upon a single wing, so the ministry is unprofitable and joyless which stints devotion.”

“Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.”

“Do they want me to stay? Do they want me to leave? Do they want me to hang myself? To kill myself? What do they want?”