Quotes from Richard Bach

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

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."

How is it we're the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.

Every real teacher is myself in disguise.

With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.

No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it.

I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.