There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

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.

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole.

The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'

I've never once in my life known a person who was successful who didn't have a big ego. Ego's not a bad thing.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

Frankly, from my perspective, the bomber jacket is such a classic item you can wear it even when it's not on trend.