I wish that I was where I am.

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.

Nothing belonged to her. She had no home. With no home and no place and now freedom coming to her, she felt an unusual surge of courage.

People who never get carried away should be.

We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much.

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind