“Hunger is good discipline.”

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you’re yet to be.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it’s not much use.

Religion is the opium of the poor.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

Discipline equals freedom.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Everyone has to get entangled in life, always think before saying anything.

Learn to discipline your emotions. If you don’t, people will use them against you.