I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.

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.

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It’s important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.

If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.

You haven’t experienced awkwardness until you’ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.

The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

This was the most emotional title of my career. I was the youngest champion, and now I'm the oldest.

Walk straight ahead look straight ahead don't stop don't pose sharp turns be confident love yourself.

Never underestimate a man's ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes.

Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?