Poems List

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.

Although we were sent into a failing world, we were not sent to fail.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.

Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought.

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

In an optimal world, I would not be necessary.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Impossible is nothing.

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

True strength lies in gentleness.

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.