“If I were to die tomorrow, then I'll like to know I made the most of my life today.”

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”

“I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.”

“Chewing gum is really gross, chewing gum I hate the most”

“And it was to this city, whenever I went home, that I always knew I must return, for it was mistress of one's wildest hopes, protector of one's deepest privacies. It was half insane with its noise, violence, and decay, but it gave one the tender security of fulfillment. On winter afternoons, from my office, there were sunsets across Manhattan when the smog itself shimmered and glowed… Despite its difficulties, which become more obvious all the time, one was constantly put to the test by this city, which finally came down to its people; no other place in America had quite such people and they would not allow you to go stale; in the end they were its triumph and its reward.”

“The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.”

“If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.”