1. “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”
2. “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
3. “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
4. “The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.”
5. “I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.”
6. “Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”
7. “There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.”
8. “America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many.”
9. “The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.”
10. “There are days when the blues grab me like a bad cold.”
11. “Life is a war and the battlefield is the heart.”
12. “The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.”
13. “It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.”
14. “A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.”
15. “I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived.”
16. “I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest.”
17. “The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.”
18. “Our realities are to a large extent a matter of our perceptions.”
19. “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
20. “I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.”
21.n”When a man tries to hide something he hides it even from himself.”
22. “I yam what I am and that’s all I yam.”
23. “What good is freedom if we haven’t learned to use it wisely?”
24. “The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.”
25. “The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.”
26. “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything.”
27. “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”
28. “It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.”