There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

No one ever stopped when they were winning.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.