Poems List

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills. The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause. Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers . The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body.

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

I think the best thing is being able to play golf competitively for a living. Ever since I was a little boy, that's something I've always wanted to do, and now I get a chance to live out my dreams.

I've done it before. It won't be the last time. You're going to go years where you just don't win. That's okay, as long as you keep trying to improve.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

”No man, let her hang loose…!!! It`s great !!!”

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas.

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.