There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.

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.

The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know

You're unusual. That's better than popular if you have some courage.

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.