Richard Bach Famous Quotes
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished if you're alive, it isn't."
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."
"As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see."
"Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers."
Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."
You teach best what you most need to learn.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends.
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof."
"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
Richard Bach Quotations
"ARCHITECTURE, n The art of how to waste space."
Philip Johnson
"Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long."
Ogden Nash
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
"The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling."
Paula Poundstone
Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.
Frank Capra
"If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself."
Horace
"To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."
William Hazlitt
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
Dan Quayle
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other."
Donald G Smith