Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.

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.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions

A woman never loves to any man, she only controls him

Emulation is a noble and just passion full of appreciation.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

What If Following Her Heart Means Rose Could Lose Her Best Friend Forever?

We're not like the distance guys. I have a very simple approach. I don't overcomplicate. People ask me, are you doing 42 steps, 44 steps for 100 metres? I don't know.

When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.