Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.