Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" is probably the best book I've ever read; it taught me about art.
Nevertheless I discovered, or rediscovered, what the core of art is all about. Not particularly about paintings and sculptures only, but first and foremost about the art of living. This wonderful book showed me that there's a huge difference between surviving and living. The main character of the book, the seagull, insists on flying in a beautiful and perfect way rather than flying only in order to cover a distance efficiently. Jonathan the Seagulll persues this goal - even though it means he´s rejected and ridiculed by his equals. (http://my.opera.com/ricewood/blog/2007/01/08/an-homage-to-the-book-jonathan-livingst)

Quotes:

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

- You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

- 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?