Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

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.

The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Just stop wishing and start working!

Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.

You have to choose your own destiny.You have to choose your own path in life.

The most practical solution is a good theory.

It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know

Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.

I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character

If we can (generate) the right emotion inside of us, we can get ourselves to do anything. If you don’t have the money, but you’re creative and determined enough, you’ll find the way.

I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.