Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

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 do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

We volunteer to work for the love and joy of service.

Find children in your neighborhood, Teach them how to read and writeTake them out of the darkness, Into the light

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.

I always feel like everything I shoot is a student project and nobody else knows about it. I forget, in the moment, that other people will see it.

Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.

Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac.