Poems List

A woman can be judged by her cooking, her dressing and her husband.

An educated man without ambition is as badly off as an ambitious man without education.

A skilled teacher and a few good books can always cure ignorance.

You know you are old when you discover that your children are learning in history class what you studied in current events.

The thicker, the sicker.

You can be right or you can be happy.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

To give is to receive...

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean -- when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene -- nine-tenths of it!

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, na?ve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.