Top 300 Richard Bach Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.”

— Richard Bach

202. “Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you’ll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.”

— Richard Bach

203. “I don’t want to do business with those who don’t make a profit, because they can’t give the best service.”

— Richard Bach

204. “Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn’t seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I’d better not marry the natives.”

— Richard Bach

205. “The great thing about writing is, if you don’t like the world, we’ll create a different one.”

— Richard Bach

206. “How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.”

— Richard Bach

207. “Why fly? Simple. I’m not happy unless there’s some room between me and the ground.”

— Richard Bach

208. “If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?”

— Richard Bach

209. “For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.”

— Richard Bach

210. “With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.”

— Richard Bach

211. “When you’re flying, an airplane doesn’t care who you are; it doesn’t care how much money you make or don’t make. All it cares about is: How well do you fly? How well do you know the airplane? How well do you know the sky?”

— Richard Bach

212. “The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.”

— Richard Bach

213. “If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.”

— Richard Bach

214. “Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies.”

— Richard Bach

215. “All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don’t show the million decisions that led to that moment.”

— Richard Bach

216. “Thanks to you, I always am so happy. Now I want to give you all the happiness on your birthday.”

— Richard Bach

217. “Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There’s the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.”

— Richard Bach

218. “There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.”

— Richard Bach

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

— Richard Bach

220. “We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.”

— Richard Bach

221. “She didn’t mean to be sexy that moment, but even a winter nightgown couldn’t hide that lovely outline. When will I outgrow my simple-minded fascination with the form she had happened to choose for her body? Never, I thought.”

— Richard Bach

222. “It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.”

— Richard Bach

223. “Boredom between two people doesn’t come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.”

— Richard Bach

224. “We’re all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.”

— Richard Bach

225. “His one sorrow was not solitude, it was that other gulls refused to believe the glory of flight that awaited them; they refused to open their eyes and see.”

— Richard Bach

226. “You don’t love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That’s what I mean by love.”

— Richard Bach

227. “The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it, no matter what; and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime.”

— Richard Bach

228. “Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn’t make sense right away.”

— Richard Bach

229. “You seek problems because you need their gifts.”

— Richard Bach

230. “This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one’s self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.”

— Richard Bach

231. “You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.”

— Richard Bach

232. “That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.”

— Richard Bach

233. “It’s like, at the end, there’s this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?”

— Richard Bach

234. “The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I’ve seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we’re here to express love.”

— Richard Bach

235. “Soon as you realize you’re immortal,” he said, “declare the power of Love even when it seems invisible, you’ll go far beyond the illusions of space and time. In all history, the one power you never lose is your power of letting go of space and time, the joy of dying that is no wicked thing, it comes in love, to everyone.”

— Richard Bach

236. “Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don’t assume they’re wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.”

— Richard Bach

237. “Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.”

— Richard Bach

238. “You’d chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor galaxy of one of the multiple trillions of universes. That’s OK. It doesn’t matter what form you take.”

— Richard Bach

239. “Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you’d better not call it home.”

— Richard Bach

240. “Fletcher Lynd Seagull was still quite young, but already he knew that no bird had ever been so harshly treated by any Flock, or with so much injustice.”

— Richard Bach

241. “How easy it is to be compassionate when it’s yourself you see in trouble.”

— Richard Bach

242. “Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?”

— Richard Bach

243. “Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn’t have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.”

— Richard Bach

244. “When we put up with any situation we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself.”

— Richard Bach

245. “Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.”

— Richard Bach

246. “I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won’t even reach for a pencil.”

— Richard Bach

247. “Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?”

— Richard Bach

248. “You are led, when you share your loves, to an enchanted life of inner happiness, which unsharing others cannot know.”

— Richard Bach

249. “Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.”

— Richard Bach

250. “Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they’re true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it’s true or because it’s crazy?”

— Richard Bach