To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.

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.

Once a person has declared "failure", they cease to look for the alternate open door. When in reality it was just inches away and wide open.

Saying of the ProphetDeathDie before your death.

I asked you to marry me – and you laughed. You thought I was joking. In fairness, I was still dressed as a Cavalier.

God is a verb, not a noun.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

There is no happiness without hard work

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude! Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!