It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.