I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

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 fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.

How do you file a restraining order against sadness?

Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

The internet is an amazing medium for languages.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

One night I was preaching on hell and laughter just hit the whole place. The more I told people what hell was like the more they laughed.