Poems List

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

In the future architecture will be designed by writers.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen

Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you've molded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when you've made your new skills strong through hard use. All of a sudden these new concepts stopped churning within you, and a new reality is born: You and the concepts are one. They have literally become you. You have become them.

In Hollywood, Oscar is king

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing

wouldn't give your troubles to a monkey on a rock.

Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.

Belief In God is primarily a matter of the moral will.

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

He [Oliver Cromwell] in a furious manner, bid the Speaker leave his chair; told the house That they had sat long enough, unless they had done more good; and that it was not fit they should sit as a parliament any longer, and desired them to go away.