Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.