“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
“The end crowns the work.”
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.”
“The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.”
“A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch and outpace.”
“The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.”
“Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
“Time, the devourer of all things.”
“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”
“The cause is hidden, but the result is well known.”
“Every lover is a soldier.”
“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”
“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is war minus the shooting.”