I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

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.

We live, move, breathe, and having our being in the Love-Light of God

The hardest thing to do in the world is overcome the mind but it just so happens that it's also the most rewarding.

I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.

races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.

If you can’t be good, be colorful.

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

If everything works out for me & if it's my special day I'll try to break AB de Villiers record for the fastest hundred.

People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.