Poems List

Every Indian live with past glory and future expectations about India. The present is fatal.

Not only dead bodies float over dead sea.

I would say that I am not the person to ask about [fame] because I am not 'famous.' But, I would say that the experiences I've had so far haven't been so bad. People look at you differently, and it is weird to see yourself in a magazine. [It's] kinda weird when people recognize you as well. I get a lot of 'Where do I know you from? I know I know you.' But overall, I have some good people around me, and that really helps.

I've played some things that I don't think too many cats can play that are alive today.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points

I had read a piece in the local paper about Nico, and I just knew this was a story that had to be told

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling.

We are willing to stand by the revelations of God.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril.

To me, the irony of this involvement with size, as I observed earlier, is the unwillingness or inability of so many Americans to identify themselves with something as vast as the United States. Bigger cars, bigger parking lots, bigger corporate structures, bigger farms, bigger drug stores, bigger supermarkets, bigger motion-picture screens. The tangible and the functional expand, while the intangible and the beautiful shrink. Left to wither is the national purpose, national educational needs, literature and theater, and our critical faculties. The national dialogue is gradually being lost in a froth of misleading self-congratulation and cliche. National needs and interests are slowly being submerged by the national preoccupation with the irrelevant.