The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

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.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

You have the ability to control your thoughts.

Come let us give a little time to folly ... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.

I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.

If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.

This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.

I'm always going to be looking for something artistically or whatever. I think that's part of being driven, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm unhappy.

I think the inner and outer aspects of the self together make one person.

He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.

The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.