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

— 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.”

“To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife,— That is the true pathos and sublime Of human life.”

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”

“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

“Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness?”

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.”

“Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”