You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

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.

Impose yourself on the world, don’t let the world impose itself on you.

Hi! My little hutIs newly-thatched I see...Blue morning-glories

Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes you won't be on the beneficial end of it but either way it's a blessing in disguise.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

Like a raisin in the sun; that will swivel up and fade away. Your success dreams will swivel up and fade away, if you are not motivated enough to work for them.

Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?

Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.