"Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive."

"No one OWES you a THING. So don't EXPECT it. You're on your OWN."

"There are hard days to live. You awake to a day when you feel you've done it all before, and you're going to do it again, so why do it at all."

"It's a fool who thinks having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fish heads I've ever heard."

"Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later."

"So, if the truest currency of life is time, then how do you get more time? Because if more is merrier, than having more time should make us more happier. Right? Therefore, all we have to ask ourselves is can we buy more time? . . ."

"Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist."

"Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not."

"Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different."

"Don't spoil kids by trying to buy them off, to buy their time. Kids aren't stupid. They know a bribe when they see one. They want a parent not a payoff."

"These Moments Cascade Upon One Another"Here at shepherd's dusk, in a valley without echo, I listen for you. With a frayed longing, I hear your shadow voice whispering within me from far away. I grasp at what is left of this husky sun lying golden upon the upper meadows of lodge pole and bear grass. I gather the last remnants of the evening's breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten. And I see that behind a cloak of clouds, dalliance suits the canting moon. Suddenly I do not wish to lose another moment, And I covet all pristine light."

"Rain with no shoes is just as much fun as rain with big rubber galoshes."

"As I see it, you GET married - but you MAKE a marriage."

"I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don't."

"Dream young. Don't settle for old - for to be old is to be superstitious and without curiosity and always questioning your faith. And be ferocious in your dreaming - run like a sun's explosion, and skip across bluing waves, and dance upon tips of swan feathers."

"Starting the day-Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer-both solemn and joyful at still being alive . . ."

"But more importantly in my book of life, it's what you can't buy with money that is often more important than what you can buy."

"So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS?"

"Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore."

"I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable."

"Living isn't always red bows and birthday balloons."

"If you don't know how to grow old, don't start learning how to grow old."

"Be the same person- with or without money."

"You might want more time in your life to attempt the things you like to do, and not just perform the things you have to do."

"I want to remember...Smelling your newness upon this earth. The baby-Jesus smell as Grandma used to put it. Pure. Unsullied. Like the imagined smell in the twirling air of eiderdown feathers spin-floating around the yard on a new spring day."

"Who will you be, my Little Ones? Will you dance for the fires of your youth and run at midnight to water's edge, diving into summer's heat? Will you ride a wild mare to any thought or dream or love of your making? Will you seek the artistry of your own infatuations and explore . . ."

"Enjoy the RIDE NOW. You'll be SUCCESSFUL later, however YOU define SUCCESS."

"Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living."

"Do not give a damn what "they" have to say (and you will know who they are) for you are either very right or very wrong, but at least you are very something."

"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."