One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

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.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

I'm more interested in lookin' forward than back. The past is done and there's no changin' it.

You could get crickets to pop out of a book as a little, little girl, but now you have to relearn it? Well, children can do so many things until they're told they can't.

When you make a choice, acknowledge all the consequences.That way you won’t be leftfeeling compromised.

I had a dream about you… but I don’t know you…who are you?

Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to be here.

There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on its merits.

I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong.

Gone, but not forgotten.

I would really love to go to Thailand as so many people have told me how wonderful it is.