Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him.

The ultimate value of our lives is decided not by how we win but by how we lose.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

The hell with my arm. You lose an arm you lose an arm. There's worse things than lose an arm. You've got two arms and you've got two of something else. And a man's still a man with one arm or with one of those. The hell with it,' he says. . . .after a minute he says, 'I got those other two still.

It is in defeat that we become Christian.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.