Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

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

"If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats."

"You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true."

"The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages."

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

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

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