Richard Bach

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.

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

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

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

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

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

The most important thing in life is to love what you’re doing, because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Sometimes understanding other people’s problems is the key to finding opportunities.

If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.