I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

No man is a devil in his own mind.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other - male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.