Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

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.

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.

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

You are ice and fire The touch of you burns my hands like snow

If you don't have the confidence to ask, you will never have the confidence to convince.

I am foolish in the way distance makes me feel partial.

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.

It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.

I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and idealistic.