Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.

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.

The truth between two people always cuts two ways.

Freedom means equality. If you don't believe in equality for all, you don't believe in freedom.

There is an instinctive withdrawal for the sake of preservation, a closure that assumes the order of completion. Winter is a season unto itself.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

When growth is slower than expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher than expected, bonds go down. When inflation's lower than expected, bonds go up.

Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.

Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.