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.

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 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.

If you fall, rise up, shake off the dust and try again.

Be brave enough to be simple and humble.

No matter how many losing seasons you might have had in the past with your marriage, the good thing is that all teams get a fresh start once September begins

Do notforget duty. But choose love when you can.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.

I do my best to answer all questions that they might have as well as make appearances at camps and what not.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.