Poetry is another name for a person’s telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one’s own perceptions.

Speech is the resuscitation breath for living corpses and the water of life for those who want to live forever.

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.

Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

This nation asks for action, and action now.

I think I say things nicely and my whole goal is to be understood and that includes by people who don't understand me.

Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.

Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite have the energy to be there.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.