Neither poverty nor wealth is in the wallet. They are all in the mind.

Enough is not in the volume of money owned or size of one’s account. It is in the needs that can be consistently met without having to work for money anymore

Rich men hold their secrets close to their chest and share among themselves only. I am not afraid to share my secrets to poor people because I know most of them will not use it

Only God knows the future and that we are to look to Him—not to the stars or the tea leaves or the lines on the palms of our hands—for our confidence in the future.

If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term.

So we baked and sweated together. I like punching the dough. I told myself it was the moon and punched it senseless.

Joy of giving, joy of receiving.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

For every worry under the sun, there is a remedy or there is none. If there be one, hurry and find it. If there be none, then never mind it.

The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.