We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

Drinking is a way of ending the day.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.