I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

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.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

The past is not complete until you are finished with it.

Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead.

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.

If you are strong enough, you can enjoy even in the middle of a storm!

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

I think, for myself, life lied to me.