Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

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'm not even sure we remembered to kiss. What we had went deeper than a kiss

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Practice love and self-acceptance and you'll have an absolutely beautiful life.

The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

The world we live in today is very, very diverse. It has extremism on one side, it has incredible liberal aspects to it on the other.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

Github is an excellent hosting service; I have nothing against it at all.

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?