I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.