Money can buy you knowledge, but not the wisdom to use it wisely.

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....

I LOVE YOU” If said only when you have to?What good is it to ride a horse if you cannot gallop?What good is it to believe in someone if you doubt your own belief?

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...

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.

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

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

The things you don’t know or understand are as important as your desire to know them. This is the relationship of man to mystery.

Don’t have kids until you’re ready. And when you do have them, have them all the way. They aren’t like some Cadillac that you can turn back into the dealership after three years.

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...

So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.

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

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.

Just because you’re breathing, doesn’t mean you’re alive.

POLITENESS must carry the true weight of SINCERITY and INTEGRITY for it to be a true act of POLITENESS.

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...

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

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...

It’s a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That’s the most you can ever do.

While all the universe and my family are still sleeping, I will walk among the red and blue twinkle-lights of the living room, to sit and gaze upon the pretty white angel atop the tree...

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.

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

Marriage is love put to it’s ultimate test – the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.

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...

You become a man when you marry not just for love but to be a partner with your wife. To be the best man you can be with her, and when you fall short, to...

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

My God, what a sensation to be an atom in the scheme of such grandiosity. The allurement, the jazz, and the physics of it all . . .

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

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.

Living isn’t always red bows and birthday balloons.

In reality, Little Ones, there are two winters. One made for kids; the other for adults. The one made for adults is always too cold and always too long. The one made for kids is...

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

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 . ....

The trick to not growing old is to: Stay curious. Keep your teeth. Stay hopeful. Do everything gracefully, yet kick when you have to.

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

Be the greatest of who you were meant to be. Life goes on ferociously-with or without you. It is your choice. Truly and magnificently your choice.

I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And...

All you have to do to quickly become OLD is to slowly GIVE UP being ALIVE.

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

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.

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...

I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.

Make doing your best a habit, and you’ll never know not doing your best. If you build roads, then build them Roman—make them last two thousand years. Dig ditches as if you were taking them...

Part of loving kids is laying down fencelines. They need to know immediately when they’ve crossed a line; otherwise the lesson doesn’t get learned.

Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime.

Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It’s hard work to be wisely alive.

Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss – taunting, deep, and luscious.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

Money. It fits around your neck like some permanent noose. always waiting for your next misstep.

A Good Man. Every night, like a question-and-answer prayer, my son and I recite…What are you going to be? And he says…An honest man. A fair man. A courageous man. And a good man. That’s...