I remember how often some of us walked out of the darkness of the Lower East Side and into the brilliant sunlight of Washington Square.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.

A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.

No man does right by a woman at a party.

If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble for the landlord.

Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.

As you improve yourself, those around you benefit and are, themselves, improved!

As you get older it is harder to have heroes but it is sort of necessary.

The mostimportant victory is the one which has to arrive.

When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.

Nobody loves me. Sometimes I wish God could come down and hug me.

Chaykin at his ballsiest and most dynamic. This is how the Shadow should be done.

I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.

Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.