The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."

(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

To work / to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives / one is so very small / but that is the satisfaction of writing / one can impersonate so many people.