Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

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.

We wind up disappointed with our life and end up depressed because we have wasted it

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

If we let our head drop, our heart drops with it. Keep your head up, and your body is capable of amazing feats.

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.