Understanding Is A Two-way Street.

It Seems To Me That I Cannot Afford, As A Self-respecting Individual, To Refuse To Do A Thing Merely Because It Will Make Me Disliked Or Bring Down A Storm Of Criticism On My Head.

I Could Never Say In The Morning, "i Have A Headache And Cannot Do Thus And So". Headache Or No Headache, Thus And So Had To Be Done.

The Encouraging Thing Is That Every Time You Meet A Situation, Though You May Think At The Time It Is An Impossibility And You Go Through The Tortures Of The Damned, Once You Have Met It And Lived Through It You Find That Forever After You Are Freer Than You Ever Were Before. . . . You Gain Strength, Courage, And Confidence By Every Experience In Which You Really Stop To Look Fear In The Face. You Are Able To Say To Yourself, “i Lived Through This Horror. I Can Take The Next Thing That Comes Along.

We Must Know What We Think And Speak Out, Even At The Risk Of Unpopularity.

I Wonder If Communists Occupied In Producing Plays Are Not Safer Than Communists Starving To Death. I Have Always Felt That Whatever Your Beliefs Might Be, If You Could Earn Enough To Keep Body And Soul Together And Had To Be Pretty Busy Doing That, You Would Not Be Very Apt To Have Time To Plot The Overthrow Of Any Existing Government.