Poems List

If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him.

People who keep journals have life twice.

No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?"

If passion gaineth the mastery over reason, the wise will not count thee amongst men.

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Today is the only day in which we have any power."

He who will not freely and sadly confess that he is

No man is defeated without until he is defeated within.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Happiness is the gauge that measures your relationship with God."

Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

The greatest enemy to fear is truth."

Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story."

Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love…then make that day count!"

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies.