Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

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.

That felt strange. How sharp a rent a handful of moments made in the fabric of a life.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.

The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving something better.

One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.

When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack.

Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.

If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.