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

I readan article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children tobe skeptical of everything, never to believe anything in life or religion or their own feelings without submitting it to many rational doubts, to have a persistent, thoroughly skeptical, doubting attitude toward everything.... I think he might as well have taken them out in the backyard and killed them with an ax.

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

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

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

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.