Poems List

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

SOUND vibrations of your words affect the space around them. You literary TOUCH others with what you say.

There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

A person's true friend is his own pure human feature and the surrounding mother nature

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

I want to give my kids enough so that they could feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

I don't have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. It's like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn into consumption. If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GNP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing. I don't do that though. I don't use very many of those claim checks. There's nothing material I want very much. And I'm going to give virtually all of those claim checks to charity when my wife and I die.

I personally think that society is responsible for a very significant percentage of what I've earned. If you stick me down in the middle of Bangladesh or Peru or someplace, you find out how much this talent is going to produce in the wrong kind of soil... I work in a market system that happens to reward what I do very well - disproportionately well. Mike Tyson, too. If you can knock a guy out in 10 seconds and earn $10 million for it, this world will pay a lot for that. If you can bat .360, this world will pay a lot for that. If you're a marvelous teacher, this world won't pay a lot for it. If you are a terrific nurse, this world will not pay a lot for it. Now, am I going to try to come up with some comparable worth system that somehow (re)distributes that? No, I don't think you can do that. But I do think that when you're treated enormously well by this market system, where in effect the market system showers the ability to buy goods and services on you because of some peculiar talent - maybe your adenoids are a certain way, so you can sing and everybody will pay you enormous sums to be on television or whatever -I think society has a big claim on that.

Yet, my little Diary, I don't want to die, I still want to live .. I would wait

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.