The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

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

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

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is: "Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one.

Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing and just delighted with any manifestation of yourself, bad or good. For true listeners know that if you are bad-tempered it does not mean that you are always so. They don't love you just when you are nice; they love all of you.