Richard Bach

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

Remember where you came from, where you__e going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go....

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 to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.

if you argue for your limitations they are yours

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've gotresponsibilities.

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.