Poems List

The pursuit of happiness" is an American myth. The ideologies and governments of this century that promised happiness, have left people with more material possessions, but less psychological well-being. Many of the citizens are emotionally bankrupt and unhappy. The demands of life in our current socioeconomic system require that we keep running and running with little or no breaks....Like their parents, most of the young professionals will drift through life racing for the "American Dream", going through very expensive trial-and-error lessons and struggling to achieve happiness and fulfillment.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed.

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

For the desert, a camel is better than a horse. - On Situational Leadership; Stamina vs. Speed

Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

The leadership team is the most important asset of the company and can be its worst liability

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Leadership excellence requires a balanced mix of paradoxes. Leaders need to be visionary yet practical, teachers yet learners, and believers yet open-minded.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

A CEO's performance is as good as the performance of his middle managers

The world began when I was born and the world is mine to win

In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.

It is not possible to have a politics-free organization. The desire for power and control is part of the human nature. Successful business leaders know how to leverage organizational politics by setting performance-oriented instead of resources-oriented political rewards.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.

The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.