Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.

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.

I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.

To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.

12 Hours on the computer... sounds like I am vip... few people stay on computer so long or not big %.

We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all about: the Islip Garbage Barge.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.

Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

Live your dream. Do what you came here to do.