I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

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.

Music in war is a candle in the darkness

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.

Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go.

In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.