“I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. ”
“Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.”
“It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.”
“I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.”
“I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.”
“It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.”