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

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.

Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.

... the spirit, I think, is a stream, a fountain, and must be continually poured out, for only if it is poured out will more and clearer streams come.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

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

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.