Poems List

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Sorry for the disaster. And thanks for your patience!

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

Doroga k Zvjozdam Otkrita.

Its better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope -- an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

Blessed are the forgetful for they get the better even of their blunders.

Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.