Words are the only things that last forever.
For when all else is done, only words remain. Words endure.
One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.
Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.
You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.
the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die
