The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

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.

Hope is expectant longing.

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

I would say that the key doctrine of the Sanders administration would be no, we cannot continue to do it alone; we need to work in coalition.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

You can't base your decisions on anyone's opinion but yours and God's.