Words worth keeping

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?

Look after my heart - I've left it with you.

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.