Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

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.

Inspired action is when you take action with no mind. Pure silence.

It is proven that cars can affect your health.

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.

When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you're doing.

She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters’ convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but absolutely everybody noticed she was edible.

A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.

That which an enraged woman can accomplish.