"Hauge Klemmer un daipe Schwemmer wåret nich ålt."

"Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meanin…"

"For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, bu…"

"You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of…"

"Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the…"

"Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true."

"An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

"Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight — how to get from shore to food and back again."

"We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill."

"Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no …"