“I have to live with myself, and so I want to be fit for myself to know. I want to be able as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye. I don't want to stand with the setting sun and hate myself for the things I've done. I don't want to keep on a closet shelf a lot of secrets about myself and fool myself as I come and go into thinking that nobody else.

The kind of man I really am. I don't want to dress myself up in a sham. I want to go out with my head erect. I want to deserve all men's respect, but here in the struggle for fame and Pel, I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to think as I come and go that I'm a bluster and bluff, an empty show.

I can never hide myself from me. I see what others may never see. I know what others may never know. I can never fool myself and. , whatever happens. I want to be self-respecting and conscious.”