There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

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.

When given the chance to see China off the beaten track, definitely take it.

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

I was 14 when I lost them [his front teeth]. The main thing was, we won that game, so I was the happiest. You hate to lose your teeth and the game, too.

I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

A permanent path That, once illuminated, Goes ever onward - a way home.

Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.