The shovel is the brother to the gun.

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.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Whenever I watch the beginning of Jimmy Fallon, I feel like I should sue the Roots for bait and switch.

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

I feel kind of sorry for those kids who just play one sport growing up.

We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.

If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be The Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun.

I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good to me.

You could say I'm a bit of a nomad.

The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.