Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

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.

Creativity without commercialism will result in unseen masterpieces by unknown painters.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.

The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.

One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.

Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.

He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.