“I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.”

“New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush.”

“Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking he is not bigoted about it.”

“The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.”

“Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat.”

“I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.”

“I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedn...”

“I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was a...”

“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”

“The only failure is not to try.”

“We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.”

“I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters.”