Good positions don't win games, good moves do

Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do

The idea comes before the logical argument.

In chess there is a world of intellectual values.

When you’re dying, even your unhappiest memories can induce a sort of fondness, as if delight is not confined to the good times, but is woven through your days like a skein of gold thread.

Watch how your enthusiasm can light up another’s fire. This is how we wake up the world.

Your mind couldn't rest like the other little boys. You looked around and you saw the blanket of fear covered the whole country.

Smiling for no reason at all is the reason i'm smiling

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.

To make the most of your life you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.