It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

I've known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that's left-

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

Trace was just one of those guys who caught your attention no matter if you had a ring on your finger. He would be hot 'til the day he died. Seriously.

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

Don't let anything or anyone define you. You are what you are because of what you make of tough situations in your life.

I remember I had scenes with Melinda McGraw in "Ides Of March" that I didn't have in "Video Vigilante," but I can't quite picture that other character. But it was Vancouver, and that year was crazy

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

I guess we all have some sort of Rubicon that we haven't crossed in our lives and we've thought about for who knows how long. And for me, it's writing.

New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.

Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.