We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

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.

Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn't meant.

Duty should be a byproduct.

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.

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

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.