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

If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else. Even our health improves.