...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.

...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.

I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.

You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.