"And Sometimes I Feel as if I'm Only a Doorman Awaiting the Arrival of her Royal Majesty."

"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."

"When do you become a man? 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."

"Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things."

"Money can buy you everything to fill your time but it cannot buy time itself. And things are definitely not time."

"Respect both what you need to know and what you don't need to know. Respect mystery, for mystery is still needed to run the universe."

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

"Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken."

"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."

"Love your kids and just be there for them. You don't have to eyeball their every moment or to orchestrate all their comings and goings. They know this. They know that's too much."

"Spring is a time to make up a big bouquet of flowers for someone you love, or are trying to love, or are in love with."

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

"You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is."

"I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends. I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness . . ."

"Remember, Little Ones, everything is not important all the time. Only living is important all the time. Not things. Not money. Not more things and more endless money. Spend well the quality of your time. And yes, be greedy with your hours. If only to then give those hours away as the most precious gifts you have to offer to yourself, your family, and your friends."

"Be generous with your life - love deeply, honestly, and without reservation."

"If You Don't Believe the Numbers and Believe in Your Spirit, then You're Ageless."

"I promise to dream with you both great dreams and small dreams. To ask your counsel in times of uncertainty. To honor your silence when you seek to be alone. To be ever wondrous at your curiosities and revelations. And to be ever rejuvenated by your passions . . ."

"Kids are kids and not little adults. They're watching and listening to you all the time. They're figuring out the game plan but still don't know all the rules. Talk straight to them and they'll respect you for it."

"Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again."

"Eat Ice Cream. Read Books. Be Happy."

"I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness."

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

"I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making."

"Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both."

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

"Heavy rains and a good book. A perfect extravagance."

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

"As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live."

"I can FEEL her next to me. This UNION. Of WARMTH. Of CARING. Of the INDESCRIBABLE. As if there were NO PARTING and NEVER could be."

"Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable."

"Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility - but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings."

"Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take. And what is my soul?...It is everything that make a man. It is everything that makes this man."

"Rain. Tumble, bumble and, fall on me. Any old day, any old way. Come for a visit, or come for a stay. Rain, rain, don't go away."

"Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage."

"It's through traveling you make the great journey into yourself, and it's the clarity of extremes in traveling that forces you to meet yourself like you've never met yourself before."

"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."

"No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a man and a boy. Because you are either one or the other, but you are not both . . ."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see."

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