When the horse dies in the street, the oats no longer pass through to the sparrows.

We no longer have ideals. We manage only our interests. The consequences of this are self evident.

There is no point in doing anything that is not in your heart's hunger.

The bee fertilises the flower it robs.

Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows What are those blue remembered hills? What farms?What spires are those? This is the land of lost content. I see it shining plain. Those happy highways where I went And cannot come again.

He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy but thinks little of God.

Bill Clinton says he has created 11 million jobs since he became President. Sure he has. And I have four of them.

It is not given to many Presidents to spend TWO world empires to decline.

It is not the quality of the faith which is important; it is the quality of the doubt.

There is no point in voting because no matter what you do, the government gets elected.

Tell 'em what your going to tell 'em. Tell'em. Then tell'em what you told them.

Publicity is like poison; it won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

Revenge is a dish best eaten cold.

Look at the spirit there Lying, a dying ember Where words have crushed it out like jackboots. Or a whip, perhaps Twisting pain around a pole Or a taper Gasp! Another day has lit the soul To stumble, down and up, and out To something, Or just to darkness.

Hyprocisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Every now and then there comes a time and place where a man has to plant his feet, stand firm, and make a point about who he is and what he believes in-- and kick some ass.

A little sleep, a little slumber A little folding of your hands to rest Then your poverty will come as a robber, And your want like an armed man.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

We live in a strange world which shows very little of itself on the surface.

When you do all the talking, you only learn what you already know.

It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not.

Resist , in all circumstances. Be yourself, at all costs.

Sometimes I play that I catch up with myself. I run with what I was And with what I will be In the race of what I am. And sometimes I play that I pass myself Then maybe I run in the race of what I'm not. But there's still another race In which I'll play that I am overtaken And that will be the real one.

Those who blow their own horn will soon be playing solo.

If you want to s*** like an elephant, you can't eat like a bird.

I think that at this moment Maybe nobody in the universe is thinking about me. I am the only one who is thinking me And if I were to die now, Nobody, not even I, would think me. And this is where the abyss begins, As when I go to sleep. I'm my own support and I take it away from me. I help to curtain everything with absence. That may be why, when you think of someone It's like saving them.

INNER PEACE There's a place at the center that everyone knows At the end of a valley where no one else goes Where the rage of the battle meets the eye of the storm Where the sole thing that matters is substance not form It's a place where the heart and the mind mold as one Where deep thoughts and deep feelings wage a battle hard won O'er frustration and anger and things left undone And the failures of self from which no one can run And in order to reach there and to pick up the fight And to win, not for victory, but for that which is right One must follow a path which is narrow and straight And not waver, nor falter, nor tarry, nor wait And ignoring confusion and man's misguided pride Take the only course open, and that is: DECIDE. 30 March 1994

If you should but decide to climb that peak towering to the heavens, you will find there is a pathway to its very summit.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Ven der putz shteht,licht der sechel in drerd. (Yiddish for When the P**** stands up, the brain gets buried in the ground.)

What complicates life is having to make choices.

When sounds are repeated often enough, they become silence.

No one plans to fail, they just fail to plan.

All I know I know is I've got a bottom and it has a crack in it.

You have a motor mouth which doesn't engage your brain.

For every trouble under the sun/ There be remedy, or there be none/ If there be one, try to find it/ If there be none, never mind it.

Be true to the dreams of your youth.

Follow truth too close by the heels, it kicks you in the teeth.

Half a piece of bread is half a piece of bread, but Half the truth is a lie.

There are two natural classes of predators in this country; the very poor, by circumstance, and the very rich, by training.

You can throw a stick in the river, but it will not become a fish.

Life is on the wire. All the rest is just waiting.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over in the belief that somehow the result will be different.

Fishing is a jerk standing at one end of the line waiting for another jerk at the other end.

L'argent n'a pas d'odeur.

You can learn everything in solitude but character.

If you are going to have brain surgery, would you rather hire a brain surgeon, or a proctologist at half price who wants to learn?

Ship me somewhere east of Suez Where the best is like the worst Where there are no Ten commandments And a man can raise a thirst.

A woman's greatest weapon is a man's imagination.