Richard David Bach Quotes

I give the impression that I am secure, that all is sunny and unruffled with me, within as well as without, that confidence is my name and coolness my game; that the waters are calm and I am in command, and that I need no one. But don’t believe me, please.

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

When I want to understand someone swiftly, I need only look at their bookshelf.

With all the books we have, so many still waiting to be written! Like fresh deep plums way up in the treetops. Not much fun to climb up some teetery ladder, snake through the branches going way out on limbs to pick ’em, but how delicious they are when the work is over.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.

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.

“Do you ever notice, after you’ve known someone for a while, how their appearance changes? He can be the handsomest man in the world,” she (Leslie) said, “but he turns plain as popcorn when he has nothing to say. And the plainest man says what matters to him and why he cares and in two […]