What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.
For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.
Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.
. . . he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.
Forcing a dog into an alpha roll, or shaking the dog, both constitute physical aggression. Physical aggression is not communication. If there is good communication, then such confrontations need not occur.
When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.
The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.