There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

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.

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

Light makes light even brighter, but does not cancel it.

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

Somebody's got to do it [being Donald Trump]. It's different. It's difficult. There are a lot of wonderful things about it, but always being under scrutiny isn't one of them.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.

On the day a country decides not to invest a cent in innovation, discovery or exploration, that country decides to be a tributary to others.

I'm the type that'll give any man a chance to come correct before leavin in a ambulance

Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.