Poems List

Imagination rules the world.

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

A stranger who is kind is a kinsman; an unkind kinsman is a stranger.

If we don't learn from the mistakes of others...we ought to make them ourselves

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, You would never see a bad show.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; fortitude in adversity: these are the self-attained perfections of great souls.

We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!

You are free, and that is why you are lost.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today!

He who seeks wealth sacrifices his own pleasure, and, like him who carries burdens for others, bears the load of anxiety.

Hobbies cost money but interests are free.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

When God asks me "What have you done with the life I gave to you?", I don't want my answer to be "I spent it all chasing Silver and Gold."

Through avarice a man loses his understanding, and by his thirst for wealth he gives pain to the inhabitants of both worlds.

Yes, I have cherished my "demagogue" role. I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having bought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is maligant in the body of America - then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine.

He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.

Unless man anchors the real love, man will always drift in the middle of nowhere!

A prudent man will not discover his poverty, his self-torments, the disorders of his house, his uneasiness, or his disgrace.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.

The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

When you make something fetish, ashes and dusts will laugh at you, because they know even the most valuable fetishes will turn into dusts and ashes!

Like an earthen pot, a bad man is easily broken, and cannot readily be restored to his former situation; but a virtuous man, like a vase of gold, is broken with difficulty, and easily repaired.