Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.

Always cut the cards...and smile when you lose.

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

There is no safety this side of the grave