Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Flyers fell a certain kinship with the sight of the earth unencrusted by humanity, they want to see it that way in… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I belong to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane.… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
He moves not through distance, but through the ranges of satisfaction that come from hauling himself up into the air with complete… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect.” — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.” “No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real.… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy? — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
