Vance Platko

“It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do.  It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me.  I can sit and look at it for hours.  I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“To begin with, you've got to understand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“Her hands trembled as she pressed them together to make them stop, for Kapugen had taught her that fear can so cripple a person that he cannot think or act. Already she was too scared to crawl.
"Change your ways when fear seizes," he had said, "for it usually means you are doing something wrong.”
― Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves

“this is the great secret, which was known to all educated men in our day: that by what men think, we create the world around us, daily new. And”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon