Richard Bach Quotes

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.

I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can't drag people through.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

Education is freedom.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.

Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.