Poems List

You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself What is my truest intention Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Have you ever used Diet Shampoo before? It's for people with Fat Heads.

Life's simplest things are love, and kindly friends, Nature's sweet charm of earth and sea and sky gladness of soul that with right living blends -- home's dear content, so cheap that all may buy.

Question for the Family Feud game show: "Name something that you can't say on TV.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.