Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!

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.

Are you kidding me? The last time I saw a face like yours, I fed it a banana.

The problem with a lot of people is that they keep trying to make ends meet without knowing the difference between their wants and needs.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

Couples should keep their love pure before it poisons the purest love of all - that between them and their children