... the spirit, I think, is a stream, a fountain, and must be continually poured out, for only if it is poured out will more and clearer streams come.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

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.

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.

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

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

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

To help all created things that is the measure of our responsibility to be helped by all that is the measure of our hope.

There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning it suggests something opening up.

Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society.

A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

It's been too many nights of being with to now be suddenly without.

Je me sens vraiment entre amis. (I feel that I am truly among friends.)

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere.

I may be drunk but at least I'm not insane.