The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

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.

In the depths of hell roasting on a spit if it meant getting to be close to you.

Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

Kindness! What a wonderful way to touch someone's heart.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

Anything can happen, but it usually doesn't.

The Almighty implanted in us these inextinguishable feelings for good and wise purposes. They are the guardians of His image in our heart. They distinguish us from the herd of common animals.

I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.