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.

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.

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

Life is so spine chillingly beautiful.

Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.

[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.

In fact, over the last twenty years, authors have offered up over nine thousand different systems, languages, principles, and paradigms to help explain the mysteries of management and leadership.

I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come.

I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.

Don't start,” he warned. “What?” she said, grinning. “I'm sure all the big, bad trappers have a bun-bun in their houses.

I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That is a mistake.