Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

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.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

One should use common words to say uncommon things.

Experience has taught me that honesty is not the mark of any particular class nor is it related to education or wealth. It cannot be taught at any university. In most people, it springs naturally from the heart.

We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.