Poems List

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Doing things for others always pays dividends...

You have to think big to be big.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their evil look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.

The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture.