Poems List

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

Boldness in itself is genius.

Give death a better name or die trying.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

There is nothing as strong as tenderness,

Hope is a thing with feathers

Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

To love someone is to identify with them.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always.

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

There is no procedure for learning to write. What you must do, is learn to think.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me.

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.