“I am no more messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.”

— Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, 1977

About Richard Bach

Born 1936

American author of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" and "Illusions".

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”

“An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

“Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.”

“The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.”

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.”

“Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”

“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”

“The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.”

“There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.”