P.D.Q. Bach Quotes

He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them

Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?

We don't have rights until we claim them.

Two words: Love leads. Listen to that ring of love within. If we follow that leading of love we'll be guaranteed an adventurous, positive, joyful life.

If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel.

One must first learn to fall if one would fly.

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. Can you see the difference?

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

Every real teacher is myself in disguise.

You teach best that which you need most to learn.

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.

Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies.

The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed.

Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.

Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.

If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.

Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual

If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.

When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.

What I love doing is basically two things: I love flying airplanes and I love communication.

The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty.

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

Whatever enchants also guides and protects.

Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.

If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.

True enjoy stories never ever have endings.

You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.

Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being.

What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.

I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.

Thanks to you, I always am so happy. Now I want to give you all the happiness on your birthday.

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

Every word that judges value is circular. 'Good' is 'right' is 'proper' is 'just' is 'good'. But check the examples, and they're not circular at all: Every one says 'makes me happy'.

Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.

You are led, when you share your loves, to an enchanted life of inner happiness, which unsharing others cannot know.

Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.

By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become.

I AM! YOU ARE! AND LOVE: IS ALL: THAT MATTERS!

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?

Heaven isnot a place, and it isnot atime.Heaven isbeing perfect.

Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.

I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.

I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much.