I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.

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.

Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth.

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

Names are not always what they seem.

Let your works climb the stars; but you yourself stay on the ground!

Every person is born with a seed of greatness.

Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart.

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.

When do you feel most authentic? Authenticity feels so natural, so why isn't it easy?

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.