Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.

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.

Today will die tomorrow.

Heavy burden is laid on our hearts, so we do not trust in ourselves. But in God, who gives grace for endurance.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.

Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.

When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.

We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal.

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.