If we let go of things, our life is going to change. And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.
People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.
Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.
The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.
I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.
They will attach you in the morning and they will come booming - skirmishers three deep. You will have to fight like the devil until supports arrive.
I make my stand and remain as I am, and bid farewell and not give a damn.