Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will mean a particular thing is coming. Oh yes it does.

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.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don't want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that's not nice.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love.

One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.