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.

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

Sometimes the greatest pain, is the one we think we can’t control.

If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.

Common sense. Mothers are the last riddle, the worst horror, the only consolation.

Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.

When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.

The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.