A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

You are all a lost generation.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves.

Sam looked at me soft. And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

I love Photoshop more than anything in the world!

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?

Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.