What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.