Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.

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.

The public personality of a leader is not what really matters. What he does out of the open stage really tells more about him than anything else.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

If you don't care about quality, you can meet any other requirement.

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.

Listen to the silence... it has much to say.

Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.