People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.

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.

Groans that words cannot express are often prayers that God cannot refuse.

It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you?The world's a lot bigger than I am.

From Summer's EndWhat we have is enough. It's more than we consciously realized.

Downstream is always someone else's up.

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

Ignorance is not an extension of time

If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team in place on day one.

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

He (Darryl Strawberry) is not a dog; a dog is loyal and runs after balls.