Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

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.

Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Unswerving devotion to your goals is success.

A journey inward may end in defeatFor life as we know it was made by machines

The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

You get out what you put in. If you want more, give more.

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.