In a saturated population life is always cheap.

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.

Romance is like maintaining a car. If you do a good job of it, you will always have a dependable quiet ride.

Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.

It isn'y explanations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.

One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work

I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let's just get out of this mess.

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.

I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's saying and doing what.

We must try to contribute joy to the world.