The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won't do the thing. If you knew you would do the thing, you would smile happily and set about it. And this fear (since the imagination is always creative) comes about presently and you slide down into the complete slump of several weeks or years - the very thing you dreaded and set your jaw against.

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

If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.

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

We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.