Richard Bach Quotes

Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.

A moment later Jonathan’s body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. “Don’t let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I’m a seagull. I like to fly, maybe…

Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

What matters most:"What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh."Wind, Sand and Stars.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it.

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves no matter how unpleasant are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.