Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.

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.

Let's just start over", gurgled the hagget's voice. We cannot give up now.

I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.

Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

It's no coincidence that good words make us feel good and that hurtful or angry words make us feel bad. There is a 100 percent correlation between the words we choose and how we feel.