Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

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.

In your anger, zip your lips!

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

Donald Trump is a way better leader than Hillary Clinton.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

To each our own Hamlet.

Dean's wife, Judith Steinberg, made a rare appearance with Dean. She's a doctor, so I guess they brought her in to stop the hemorrhaging.

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

Food makes my mind sluggish.