Poems List

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

The secret to life is: there is no secret.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

I am alone. I can see nothing at all. For ten minutes, I am lost.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.

the Basil Spence Syndrome. When Coventry Cathedral was going up and in the public eye, he went through a lean period when he wasn't offered any jobs at all because people thought he wouldn't have time for anything else.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things.

I have three grandchildren – one girl and two boys. I'm a very doting grandmother. I think you're allowed to spoil when you're a granny, that's what grannies are for. In my house, chocolate biscuits are called "don't tell Dad" because that's what I say to them when they see the chocolate biscuits.

When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

No one will do it for you.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.