Quotes by Richard Bach

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

“Dont believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.”

“Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.”

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

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

“Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had ta...”

“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 ...”

“If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”

“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.”

“I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.”

“Whatever harm I would do to another, I shall do first to myself.As I respect and am kind to myself, so shall I respect and be kind to peers, to elders, to kits.I claim for others the freedom to liv...”

“We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.”

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

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

“The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.”

“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isnt flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any numbe...”

“Like attracts like. It'll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to l...”

“A moment later Jonathans body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. Dont let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? Im a seagull. I like to fly, m...”

“Get this in mind early: We never grow up.”

“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.”