To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

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.

We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and in doing this, we miss out on gaining any new insight or understanding.

Nature is powerless to put asunder.

One's course in life often pivots on small incidents.

The true fate of tomorrow lies on what you make of today.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

Exercise caution, as I have advised many people.

A cult hero? I don't think of myself as any kind of hero. I don't want to say it's a fairy tale, but two years ago if you would've told me I'd be in this position, I wouldn't believe it hardly.

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.

I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.