Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

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.

Rituals help us change modes.

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchw

She'd lived in the same house with this man and never once thought about his thighs in the last year.

I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.

Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.