Poems List

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

If God dwells inside us, like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims

I have thought too much to stoop to action.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

I hope that after I die, people will say of me 'That guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's dignity is thus acknowledged, or the dignity of his grief is respected. If and when he is ready, the other will of himself reach out for consolation and feel free to ask for a hand to point out the way.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands.

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.

If you're in a boxing match, try not to let the other guy's glove touch your lips, because you don't know where that glove has been.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril.