Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.

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.

Everything comes out of smoke and mist and nothingness, a mystical happening…

That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.

Maybe I hold on for too long, but maybe you don’t hold on for long enough?

The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.

Humans become angels on earth, not in heaven.

Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

You couldn't do it?" Rob Lynburn sneered. "I know her," Ash said in a low voice. "I can't... hurt someone I know.

It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.