It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.

Hmmm, ' the King said, making a face. 'I'm not sure this is what we bargained for, boy. We expected the girl to be attractive.' If I hadn't been so terrified, I would have been insulted.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

We are the total of our longings.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.

I don't know, I'm not from this neighborhood."-to Jake LaMotta after a night of drinking when LaMotta asked "is that the sun or the moon?

Many pedestrians have been maimed or killed at the intersection of Resistance and Commerce.

Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded.