Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

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.

Never say 'I can't.' 'I can't' is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say 'I will' instead.

The good thing of TV movies/books... TV series... audiobooks is that you can choose the genre and you have plenty of choice.

I don't follow politics it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.

Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.

But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.

The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.

It ain't easy being cheesy!