Help your pieces so they can help you

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

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.

Checkers is for tramps

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Life would be so much easier if everyone read my book

How would you rather die?" she snapped. "Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.

After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.

Sharing my faith is not a monologue, it is a dialogue.

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run.

I like being a part of David Cronenberg’s world, I feel very at home there