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

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

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.

Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.... Think if Tiffany's made a mosquito, how wonderful we would think it was!

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.