... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.

And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.

New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.

I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are pains that come later. Personally I think terror is the painful part of starvation.

I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.