An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.

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 relationships need strengthening in your life? Don’t wait for them to grow cold or bitter, but ask God to help you strengthen them by putting God’s love into action—begin today.

The human spirit is like an elastic band. The more you stretch, the greater your capacity.

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy

Never waste a good crisis.

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

Life is the longest death in California.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?