1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

I'm so lucky to have a family, adopted or not! I'm so lucky to be alive!" Judy Ellis Taylor tells her three school-age girls.... They roll their eyes.

Little beat big When Little smart. First with the head, then with the heart.

It’s affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.

What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn’t know a good thing if it fell out of the sky at your feet.

I used to lay drunk in alleys and I probably will again.Bukowski, who is he? I read about Bukowski and it doesn't seem like anything to do with me.

It is better, I think, to begin easily and get your running to be smooth and relaxed and then to go faster and faster.

Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.