Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

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 spent our lives making livings.

...luck is not to be coerced.

Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.

That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

We best serve our Father in Heaven by righteously influencing others and serving them.

Film is a battleground.