Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

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.

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".

We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.

In this world, there are only 'things that seem like the truth' and 'things that seem like rumors - A-ya

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.

Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.

The commercial paper market, when that dries up, you know, that's just like sucking the blood out of the economic body of the United States.

Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.

My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'

Footballers are slaves. I know this from the personal experience of being a footballer.