...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

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.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

There are only two things to be done when a general is angry: One is to get behind the furniture and pretend one is not there

As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved.

All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.

We should all try to embrace our own quirkiness.

Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.