The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

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.

No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. – Napoleon

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

This thing called thinking, just as you think of it, the more you think of it, the best thinking can be NOT to think of it.

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless

I think we need to make sure that we are putting Social Security on a sustainable path. It's absolutely something that the federal government is going to be involved in, in the future.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

There is a fair amount of competition, obviously, with ISIL and the terrorist networks around the world, China also posing a different kind of threat to the rules-based order.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

Do anything better than it was ever done before and youll get rich.