You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

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.

A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.

The public is blaming the city officials, who in turn have to find someone else to blame. It's the nature of the beast. If the police, the politicians, can pass the buck on down the line, they will.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it?

Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential.

I'm not ashamed of the things I believe and why I believe them.

The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.