"Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there.
What you choose to do with them is up to you."
"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
"The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly.
Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly."
"For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating.
For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight."
"If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?"