Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise. . . Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer!"---Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories

— Richard Bach

Learning is finding out what you already know.

— Richard Bach

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

— Richard Bach

Like attracts like. It'll surprise you as long as you live. Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.

— Richard Bach

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

— Richard Bach

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

— Richard Bach

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

— Richard Bach

Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up, and you are dead.

— Richard Bach

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.

— Richard Bach

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

— Richard Bach