It would be difficult to define the limits of his reading.

There are times in my life when I have been medicine for some while poison for others. I used to think I was a victim of my story until I realized the truth

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door?

The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

Judiciary is where my passion is.

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.