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.

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.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

Armenians have more imagination than Mohammedans.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.

It's the same old thing getting lost Day 'N' Nite young and lost in the pain.

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up

I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.