It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.

A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.

Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

Only solitude means never having to say you’re sorry.

Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides.

Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life.

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy.

A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.