"We are dealing in an area of uncertainty. An area where there are no rules, contradictory laws and no clear social consensus as to what should be done. And the cost of care for the chronic patient has become prohibitive. This is particularly the case with the long-term comatose patient. The Jefferson Institute is a government- sponsored experimental facility designed to provide quality life support to the comatose patient. I wish to emphasize no moral or ethical position is being taken here. We do not participate in the debate over whether these patients are alive or dead or whether their care should be continued or terminated. Society will decide if there will be more of these facilities or not. In the meantime, we merely provide care as inexpensively as possible."

"Dr. Cowans: Anesthesia's the easiest job in the world until something goes wrong. It's 99% boredom and 1% scared-shitless panic."

"This is the only sport in the world where two guys get paid for doing something they'd be arrested for if they got drunk and did it for nothing."

"Every woman goes for a Champion."

"John Daheim - Johnny Dunne"

"Esther Howard - Midge Kelly's mother"

"Arthur Kennedy - Connie Kelly"

"Paul Stewart - Tommy Haley"

"Ruth Roman - Emma Bryce"

"Marilyn Maxwell - Grace Diamond"

"This is a celebration. Midge is getting a shot at the title, and he's got a new manager... a blonde."

"You know what a "Golem" is? I think I knew all the time I was building one."

"Lola Albright - Palmer Harris"

"Kirk Douglas - Michael "Midge" Kelly"

"William Frawley - Charlie Halloran"

"Jerome Cowan - Dist. Atty. Thomas Mara"

"Luis Van Rooten - Jerome "Jerry" Harris"

"Philip Tonge - Julian Shellhammer"

"Porter Hall - Granville Sawyer"

"For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf? Didn't you hear 'em? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding!"

"Gene Lockhart - Judge Henry X. Harper"

"Natalie Wood - Susan Walker"

"Mr. Shellhammer: But... but maybe he's only a little crazy like painters or composers or... or some of those men in Washington."

"Alfred, Macy janitor: Yeah, there's a lot of bad 'isms' floatin' around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism. Make a buck, make a buck. Even in Brooklyn it's the same - don't care what Christmas stands for, just make a buck, make a buck."

"Maureen O'Hara - Doris Walker"

"Look Doris, someday you're going to find that your way of facing this realistic world just doesn't work. And when you do, don't overlook those lovely intangibles. You'll discover those are the only things that are worthwhile."

"(To Sawyer)--"You have no more right to analyze Alfred than a dentist has to remove a gall bladder!""

"Susan, I speak French but that doesn't make me Joan of Arc!"

"John Payne - Fred Gailey"

"Faith is believing in something when common sense tells you not to. Don't you see? It's not just Kris that's on trial, it's everything he stands for. It's kindness and joy and love and all the other intangibles."

"Harry Shannon as Lew Bryce"

"You see, Mrs. Walker, this is quite an opportunity for me. For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. Seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle."

"Oh, Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind... and that's what's been changing. That's why I'm glad I'm here, maybe I can do something about it."

"Do you realize that there are thousands of children lining the streets? Children who have waited weeks just to see you? You are a disgrace to the tradition of Christmas! And I shall not allow you to malign me in public!"

"Edmund Gwenn - Kris Kringle"

"Silvia Montero as Pinzón's Daughter (uncredited)"