Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything.

Death is loneliness in its purest form.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind. They destroy their persuasiveness; you would not believe a man was very intent on ploughing a furrow if he carried a hoop with him and jumped through it at every other step. ... When virtuosity gets the upper hand of your theme, or is better than your idea, it is time to quit.

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.