«I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.»

«It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.»

«Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape»

«Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.»

«I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.»

«I continue to get further away from the usual painter?s tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.»

«My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual»

«I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.»

«I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.»

«New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.»