It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

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.

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.

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

There aren’t any ‘relative’ (worldly) things that is worth inviting. So what is worth inviting? The ‘place’ where we have to go is worth knowing.

Thank God!" he said, and kissed her.Kissing Mairelon was much nicer than anything she had ever dared to imagine, despite the headache.

It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world.

Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.

The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.

My interest is in power. How power works.