You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Where could I go but to the Lord?

Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way.

I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.

On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.

Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes -- just real.