Poems List

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given nor how much have you won, but how much have you done not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

I saw Anne and her sister Margot again in the barracks. Her parents weren't there. The Frank girls were almost unrecognizable since their hair had been cut off. They were much balder then we were; how that could be I don't know. And they were cold, just like the rest of us. (...) The Frank girls were so emaciated. They looked terrible. They had their little squabbles, caused by their illness, because it was clear that they had typhus. You could tell even if you had never had anything to do with that before. Typhus was the hallmark of Bergen-Belsen. They had those hollowed-out faces, skin over bone. They were terribly cold. They had the least desirable places in the barracks, below, near the door, which was constantly opened and closed. You heard them constantly screaming, "Close the door, close the door," and the voices became weaker every day. You could really see both of them dying, as well as others.

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel is no doubts about oneself is something very different it is character.

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognises something about themselves or they don't — You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking, "That was nice...now where's the cab?

I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed.

I never said I was perfect, I only said that I try.

It is books that are a key to the wide world if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.