"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success."