Poems List

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

You have the ability to choose your reactions."

Health is the greatest gift, contentedness the best riches.

Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

A man who has learnt little grows old like an ox: his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.

The reason why fear is so powerful is because you believe it to be stronger than you."

Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible.

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

Time waits for no one. There is only one time for happiness and the time is NOW!"

Man is the only animal with the powers of laughter, a privilege which was not bestowed on him for nothing. Let us then laugh while we may, no matter how broad the laugh may be, and despite of what the poet says about ?the loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind.? The mind should occasionally be vacant, as the land should sometimes lie fallow, and for precisely the same reason.

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

Come to accept that if your methods don't change, neither will your results."

The mind has a thousand eyes.

About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable.

Remember that there is an abundance of happiness that can be found in the smallest of places."

Envy is a vice that would pose a man to tell what it should be liked for. Other vices we assume for that we falsely suppose they bring us either pleasure, profit, or honour. But in envy who is it can find any of these? Instead of pleasure, we vex and gall ourselves. Like cankered brass, it only eats itself, nay, discolours and renders it noisome. When some one told Agis that those of his neighbour?s family did envy him, ?Why, then,? says he, ?they have a double vexation?one, with their own evil, the other, at my prosperity.?

Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?

We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it.

We can all fight the battles of just one day. It is when we add the burdens of two uncontrollable days, yesterday and tomorrow, that we get overwhelmed.