Poems List

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

I bet if you were a mummy wrapper in ancient Egypt, on thing you would constantly find yourself telling people would be, 'Be sure, before I start, you have all the jewelry and so forth on the body, because I am NOT unwrapping him later.'

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

Go, and never darken my towels again.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it up, but that cable just keeps right on going, clear across a field, until you come to a bunch of guys who are burying the cable. Then just walk up to them and go, 'Hey, have you seen Fred' And they'll say, 'Fred who' And you say, 'Fred of snakes' Then cover your ears, because big laughs are coming.

The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, 'I like mayonnaise.' She just stared at me, so I said it again, louder. Then she left. I guess she went to try to find some mayonnaise for me.

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.

There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.