The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

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.

Sometimes you don’t get the answers you want. That doesn’t mean God isn’t listening

A man has to have something he can put faith in. Can't you see that? What I want is someone that will love me

Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.

The greatest lie of the greatest evil is that it doesn't exist.

Life will never be perfect, so we must learn how to make the imperfections work for us.

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

You control your own wins and losses.

Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.