I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.