If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.