Nature hates calculators.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

Then I woke in the shade of the fig tree in my favorite park, with the gun barrel in my mouth.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.

I like languages. I like working on different accents. I speak English, French and Spanish. I'd love to learn more but I think, as you get older, your brain is a bit slower.

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox, somehow.

To love your family, love your work, live your purpose and be unconditionally grateful for every moment of your life... is to succeed at the highest level (in my opinion).

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

Those that are the hardest to love, need it the most.

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.