I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen

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.

It's all about the smiles!

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?

I've always thought my strengths were I'm smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely struggle with feeling confident.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

things never seem as bad as they are.

I feel that movies are gifts that come to you, and there are no accidents in what you end up doing.

Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.

I think that people feel they know what love means, it's probably one of the most used words in the world but has the most completely different definitions from one person to another.

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.