The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.

Help your pieces so they can help you

Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game.

I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.

Checkers is for tramps

Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.

Nothing comes into being without a cause and when all the conditions are created, there is nothing that can prevent the consequence.

At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.

This is one of those rare recipes, surprising in its flavors and wonderful in its simplicity -- an out-and-out favorite of mine.

A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

We swallowed a few bites-not to much scince the food of the gods can burn you to ashes is you overindulge. I guess thats why you don't see many fat gods

I have very good friends who are in the army and also friends within the police force. When I say friends, people who love my music and who actually love the messages within my music.