Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of scientists to vivisection, which is the easy and cheap way, actually prevents them from scientific progress, for true progress is difficult and requires genius and imagination in its devoted workers.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

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.

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

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.