I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

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.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.

You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood.

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

People die, but money never does.

My teacher said I would either be a hoodlum, or a great entertainer.