The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.

Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now the other.

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.