Quotes By Richard Bach

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

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

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

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

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

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

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.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

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

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

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

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

The simplest things are often the truest.

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

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

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

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.