Richard Bach Quotes

I was in my peak physical condition when I was about like, uh... one. Oh God, I looked good, young and fresh! You wouldn't know me now if you'd seen me when I was one, you know? I even looked good for my age. People would come up to me and go, what are you, zero? And I'd go, no, I'm one over here!

Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

I have such a little face.

People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don't watch - I don't watch myself.' I don't look at it. I don't.

I feel so much better at 170, man.

In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.

I have to see myself naked! That’s all that counts. If I’m not happy with my naked body, who will be?

The body, like everything else in life, is a mirror of our inner thoughts and beliefs. Every cell within your body responds to every single thought you think and every word you speak.

I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.

I thought if I had straight hair and a perfect nose, my whole career would be different.

I think of my body as a temple. Or at least a relatively well-managed Presbyterian youth center.

. . . Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.

I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that? If I was in pain, I would have dieted. The pain is not there - the pain is someone printing a picture of me and saying those horrible things.

The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.

My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.

That's the biggest thing to separate - your body from your self worth.

I'm very comfortable with my sexuality, my body, my face - well, sometimes I'm not comfortable with my face, but it's stuck there and there's nothing I can do about it.

I was very, very underdeveloped for my age, I hated what I looked like, so I thought everyone had gone stark raving mad.

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.

While the mind lives in the past and the future, the body lives in the now.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

I'm glad to be a role model, but beyond that I'm a flawed human being, someone who continues to deal with my body image and what my purpose is on the planet.