Richard Bach

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

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

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

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

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

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

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

Love is kind, it’s clear. It’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

The present method of producing milk is too laborious. I believe that we can make milk by scientific process, eliminating the cow.

You be the clouds above, I’ll be the grass below, and everything in between will be where our love will grow.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Life’s three best teachers: heartbreak, empty pocket, failures.

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys. Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at Grandma’s house. And a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both. He was still the guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger-side door.

[on Diana’s Death] Disbelief, refused to accept it.

The most you get is what you ask for.

You deserve to give yourself the same love that you give to everyone else.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Some life lessons don’t ever change. But how you embrace them will distinguish you from the pack.

The philosophy of life indicates that our principal business on this planet is the gaining of experience.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.