The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

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.

The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience.

I've been lying to you guys for a long time, saying I wasn't nervous and there's no pressure. There was a lot of pressure to do it here.

You look at what Vladimir Putin is doing with President Obama. He's, like, toying with him. He's toying with him.

I'm a tired runner in the human race.

Miracles are short-term solutions, it's wisdom that helps you go the distance.

Everyone is replaceable, including me.

I won the only duel I ever lost.

Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

Still constant is a wondrous excellence.