One must dare to be happy.

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.

Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.

People who do not eat butterflies will wear their clothes the wrong way, and people who wear their clothes the wrong way are inviting lemmings inside." -- Muzhduk the Ugli the Third

One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.

Having a weakness is nothing to be ashamed of. If anything~ knowing what your weakness is makes you very powerful indeed.

I don’t know, shifted a little or something, smoothed down–people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be perfect. I would be perfect.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart

It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.