Checkers is for tramps

The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.

Help your pieces so they can help you

Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game.

I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.

Single life is the best life until you get hit by lonely nights.

I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more.

Make sure to answer these (3) empowering questions everyday (preferably in writing): Q1-What am I grateful for? Q2-What am I proud of? Q3-What results am I committed to creating today? -> Start now!

I would say, and as I have said before, the series [Narcos] does not demonstrate real happenings but rather events that the screenwriters, in their own taste, believe depict the way we lived.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

Only silence communicates the truth as it is.

Follow your passion. Help people along the way. Work very very hard and always come prepared.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.