No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?

What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.

Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it is the most common and constant truth of all, of all life, all law and order, the very thing which holds everything together, which permits everything to move along in time and be its wonderful or ordinary self.

I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.

I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.