You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

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.

Let us all practice the power of love to win the peace.

The waking have one world in common

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

My hair is naturally blonde... Just for the record. ~ Jace

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.

You can bet - a good chance of Hillary [Clinton], a good chance of [Donald] Trump - but not 100% in either case.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.

Architecture trumps licensing any time.