Maybe people are younger when they sleep.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.

Nothing sparkly can stay.

Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.

He sure put things into words good.

I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that'll really listen to you, listen and care about what you're saying, is something rare.

I´d rather have anybody´s hate than their pity

Greaser ' didn't have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn't have done it. Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn't have. It's the individual.

We saw the same sunset.

Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.--Johnny quoting Robert Frost

Sometimes you don’t get the answers you want. That doesn’t mean God isn’t listening

and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth

Keep working when grace abound.

And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.

Let the waves of ocean teach you how to love and dance.

Be kind. Be courteous. Love others and be happy. It's that simple.

As long as we can be just the sidelight, the side issue, issues that deal with human beings, both men and women and children that should be given more prominence are not.

What you see is what you see.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.