Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.

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

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.

Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.