It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

People see what they expect to see.

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

Clean out your mind closet.Clean out resentment and hatred.Clean out regrets and secrets.Now fill it with love, joy and respect.

Just as physical wounds heal at different rates in different people, so do emotional wounds. Everyone has different needs and speeds.

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

So I lied to you last night. I said that I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.

Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for this activity.

God will grovel before me, God will crawl at my feet.

Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.