Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. To S J Perelman about his book Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge (1929)

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.