Richard Bach

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

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

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

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

The simplest things are often the truest.

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

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

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

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.

I know there's a principle of spirit. It works without space-time. I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief of body. Learn how spirit works, a few simple rules, living a perfect spiritual life is easy.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

I've owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we've had long conversations in flight. There's a spirit in anything, I think, into which we weave our soul. Not many pilots talk about it, but they think about it in the quiet dark of a night flight.

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

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

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.