The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

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.

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

I dead each day when her call was busy elsewhere.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

I just don't want to get used to feeling this feeling, you know, losing basketball games.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened... I didn't want to be violated in that way.'