Poems List

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

To give is to receive...

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

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

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.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

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.

I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.

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

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

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.

If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

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.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

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.

A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

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

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.