One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

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.

If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land.

Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

I think it's crazy that Bill Cosby has a mugshot for alleged assaults 11 years ago with no physical evidence or proof besides these womens accounts of what he did to them an entire decade later.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in this world.

I definitely want to thank my doctor, Dr. Sandy, um, my psychiatrist, she really helped me relax a lot, thank you so much.

You want to win and you want the [NFL] ring. But when you win and you get the ring, you never really wear it.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.