The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.

If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.

You must become aware of the richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there, so that you can write opulently and with self-trust. If you once become aware of it and have faith in it, you will be all right.

Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them without my mind pressing against theirs, or arguing or changing the subject. No. My attitude is: "Tell me more. This person is showing me his soul. It is a little dry and meager and full of grinding talk just now, but presently he will begin to think, not just automatically to talk. He will show his true self. Then he will be wonderfully alive."