Quotes from Richard Bach

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

Thanks to you, I always am so happy. Now I want to give you all the happiness on your birthday.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

What the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly.

We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.

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

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.

Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however.

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they'll work.

I think there's an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. It's a lovely sight, watching it work.

The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it, no matter what; and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime.

The way to tell if your job is done: if you're alive, you've got a job.

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.

The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.