Poems List

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

... I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Their plans were improved with the best advice.

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

You can choose your behavior, the world chooses your consequences.

Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.

Oh what a tangled web we weave,

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.

I'm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves.

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.