The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

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.

My hesitancy to claim what I wanted meant that I got less of what I wanted.

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I won't name any names but I'll name just one, David Dein.

I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.