Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.

Do not scorn little victories.

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

Sadness is a state of sin.

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.