Remember, you can't steal second if you don't take your foot off first.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.

Being poor is a frame of mind.

Giving. What flows away from you flows back magnified: Become a joyful giver.

I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.

I spend money as if I had it.

In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.

I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

I've never been poor only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

I wanted to find my voice, so I sat in silence.I wanted joy, so I cried my heart open.I wanted wisdom, so I capered in bodacious foolishness.I wanted freedom, so I felt my bonds.

To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first.

Unfortunately, it's possible to be able to do something extremely well that nobody ever wants done.

I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.

I don't believe in coincidences.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.

I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.