I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
Richard Bach

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
Richard Bach

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
Richard Bach

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.
Richard Bach

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Richard Bach

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Richard Bach

In order to win, you must expect to win.
Richard Bach

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
Richard Bach

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

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
Richard Bach

Learning is finding out what you already know.
Richard Bach

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard Bach

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
Richard Bach

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
Richard Bach

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
Richard Bach

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach

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

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Richard Bach

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Richard Bach

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