I would rather be ashes than dust.

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.

Art is a language which everyone understands in their own way.

Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.

Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

In my life, I find that in sobriety, I feel much more. And I have much more depth.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.