“After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.”

“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

“Ugliness is beautifulness.The word ugly does not exist, but the ones that are blind to see the beauty of things are the ones who make the word ugly exist.nothing is ugly but for the blind it is”

“He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.”

“-I looked at his beautiful face.  “So I guess that means I’m the ugly one.”- ”

“It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?”