“You can teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.”

“It is not who you are underneath but it is what underwear you wear and what you do that defines you”

“The best six doctors anywhereAnd no one can deny itAre sunshine, water, rest, and airExercise and diet.These six will gladly you attendIf only you are willingYour mind they'll easeYour will they'll mendAnd charge you not a shilling.”-- Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990”

“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”

“Yeah, my life a bitch, but you know nothing about herBeen to hell and back, I can show you vouchers”

“Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.”

“Life is the bitch and death is her sister. Sleep is the cousin, what a fuckin' family picture. You know father time, we all know Mother Nature. It's all in the family but I am of no relation.”