Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent. Go down to your deep old heart, and lose sight of yourself. And lose sight of me, the me whom you turbulently loved. Let us lose sight of ourselves, and break the mirrors. For the fierce curve of our lives is moving again to the depths out of sight, in the deep living heart.