It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.
Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.
You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.
All work is the avoidance of harder work.
The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.
The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.