Poems List

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

The power of a democracy is not on how much citizens cast their vote. But it is only on how they treat the defeated.

Not only dead bodies float over dead sea.

If you're an archaeologist, I bet it's real embarrassing to put together a skull from a bunch of ancient bone fragments, but then it turns out it's not a skull but just an old dried-out potato.

If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear.

Every Indian live with past glory and future expectations about India. The present is fatal.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

I've played some things that I don't think too many cats can play that are alive today.

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

I would say that I am not the person to ask about [fame] because I am not 'famous.' But, I would say that the experiences I've had so far haven't been so bad. People look at you differently, and it is weird to see yourself in a magazine. [It's] kinda weird when people recognize you as well. I get a lot of 'Where do I know you from? I know I know you.' But overall, I have some good people around me, and that really helps.

I had read a piece in the local paper about Nico, and I just knew this was a story that had to be told

If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

We are willing to stand by the revelations of God.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...

If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture.

When I am asked, What do you think of our audience I answer, I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

The world is exactly like you think it is, and that's why.