Great Throughts Treasury

"A person needs at intervals to separate himself from his family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change."

"If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin."

"Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust and stability. She is their earth. She is the one they can count on for the things that matter most of all. She is their food and their bed and the extra blanket when it grows cold in the night; she is their warmth and their health and their shelter; she is the one they want to be near when they cry. She is the only person in the whole world in a whole lifetime who can be these things to her children. There is no substitute for her."

"There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend."

"I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side."