Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

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.

When they have something to hide, they put it in the F.O.I. cabinet.

I envied Lesley her unshakable optimism. She always looked on the bright side of things. If they Had a bright side.

Universe is the smallest clock.

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.

I will fight every single day to pass comprehensive immigration-reform legislation with a path to citizenship.

I didn't know that, you take your coffee seriously, dont you?' 'Every morning, I run to the coffeemaker like a soldier returning to a lost love after the war.

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.