"A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp."

“You know a one eyed woman, she do the best she can. She search the world over trying to find her a one eyed man.”

“The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.”

“Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.”

“If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.”

“I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.”

Source : "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

“I've seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I've seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of some greater plan explainable by reference to the actions of a divine being with a divine purpose.”

“What the color is, who the daddy be, who the mama is don’t mean nothin’.  We family, carin’ for each other.  Family make us strong in times of trouble.  We all stick together, help each other out.  That the real meanin’ of family.  When you grow up, you take that family feelin’ with you.”

Source : Kathleen Grissom (2014). “The Kitchen House: A Novel”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

“Glamour is something no woman can be born with. It's not a gift at all. It's more of a concoction than anything else.”