I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life. - Studs Terkel

My neighbors were angry with my mother, because she fed hungry men at the back door. They said it would bring others, and then what would she do? She said, “I’ll feed them till the food runs out.” It wasn’t until years later, I realized the fear people had of these men. We didn’t have it in our house.

It’s very important you learn people as people are. Anybody can go around and write a book about a person, but that book doesn’t always tell you that person really. At that particular moment when you are talkin’ to that person, maybe that’s how that person were. Tomorrow they can be different people.

I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.