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.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

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 fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

when you courageously believe in the power of doubt instead of the power of God, you much see the works of doubt and least see the works of God

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

I've always been obsessed by beef jerky.

Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge.

I'm going to be the Will Smith of the NBA.

The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments.

I was born black and female.

We are not saved by denying self, or taking up our cross, or doing anything else, we are saved by simply believing in Jesus.

Senator [Sam] Brownback talked about those with disabilities that are destroyed in the womb because of a genetic test that is sometimes wrong. I would put forward that we all have disabilities.