Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

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.

This world is too comfort to be changed.This world is too corrupt to be conserved.

Thank God for his great mercy of forgiveness.

A mother's job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God's Words, and principles into her kids.

When you do something, you miss something else! If you don’t want to miss anything, you have to do everything!

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him.

You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.

There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.

Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.

When I'm told something can't be done, I am inevitably attracted to that particular challenge.