The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

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.

The path to greatness begins with your willingness to take small steps.

We have enough money. You don't want to be Uncle Daddy.

I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

A methodology's weight is a product of its size and ceremony.

I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

I think that's one of the great things about the travel. One day I am at home in Sheffield, the next day I'm playing the Hollywood Bowl. It's extraordinary.