Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill.

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.

The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive.

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment - and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning.

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.