The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.

What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

Follow the grain in your own wood.

If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.