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.

the death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that.

You Do Not Know Is in You— an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that the ideas in you are an inexhaustible fountain.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

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.

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

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.