Richard Bach

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.

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

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

The things you own end up owning you.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

We’re so afraid of each other… Colour, wealth, these things that don’t really matter still play too much of a role in how we see one another. And it’s sad, because the thing that least defines us is the colour of our skin.

I don’t write letters anymore.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

What gives life its value you can find – and lose. But never posess. This holds good above all for “the Truth about Life.

If we were all just alike, one of us wouldn’t be necessary.

There is power in forgiveness.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.