Poems List

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

If a man has done his best, what else is there?

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Habit is a great deadener.

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

Words are all we have.

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.