Richard Bach, American Author Quotes

The way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities.

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

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, He said, "you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

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

Everything in this book may be wrong.

We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks.

How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't.

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

Learning is finding out what you already know

Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual].