What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

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.

What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger...unless it instead snaps your spine. Then it makes you a paraplegic.

We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, it comes later.

Individuals who have learned to endure and persevere through the storms of hardships are those who can dance in the rain during a storm.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library

I guess I'm breaking out a little of what's comfortable and easy.

In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret to happiness in life!

The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us