Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

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.

You win in life when you are able to convert all your disappearing time or the disappearing life into products.

There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing it's the most exciting form of communication.

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

Find like-minded people and try not to be individualized to the point where you try to fight it all and think about it all on your own.

Self-love knows no impediment.

Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man who goes to war willingly, for he will never find his peace.

We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.

People, even children, aren't really afraid of change. They're afraid of not being prepared for change.

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh