Words worth keeping

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.