The best Quotes from The Art of Racing in the Rain

The best drivers don't dwell on the future or the past. The best drivers focus only on the present.

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

Saphira: "Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

No future can hold up to the things that you miss in the present.

He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

German literacy ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

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

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.