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.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
