If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

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.

Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Self-Worth. Self-Love. Self-Esteem. Self-Motivation. Self-Confidence. All of these things equal Self-Empowerment. Always believe in yourself, even if nobody else does!

You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.

You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.

As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.

I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.

I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I’m a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.