Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

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.

Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.

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.

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.

... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

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.