True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.