A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

If you want to change someone's life, just love him and be kind to him.

Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

I'm not the kind of guy who just goes up to women.

Sometimes I can't draw or take a picture of something, though, if the color is a certain way and the only way to see it is to see it in person.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.