The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

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 call a story about love a love story. We call a poem about love a love poem. Well then, my dear, aren’t our lives love lives?

More of life seems to live inside us than out. Happiness is when you connect both of them.

Sometimes the challenge of beating the jet lag and getting a decent sleep can be as hard to solve as finding the right setup for the car!

When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.

Bow and offer your meditation to Eternity, as you would offer a Flower to your lover.

The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.

And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.

Over half of people who are working now and over 50 have nothing for retirement savings. They will only have Social Security to rely on.

Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.