Poems List

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.

When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new nickname for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname 'Fly Head'. Normally, you would think that 'Fly Head' would mean a person who had beautiful swept-back features, as if flying though the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean 'having a head like a fly' I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

If you want to be free, there is but one way it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it

Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right.

What's another word for Thesaurus

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

If I was the head of a country that lost a war, and I had to sign a peace treaty, just as I was signing I'd glance over the treaty and then suddenly act surprised. 'Wait a minute I thought WE won'

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

No one will do it for you.

Ideals are like stars you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

The Meaning Of Life The reason that we're all here is that it was too crowded where we were supposed to go.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.