The greatest development after age 21 was shown by Steinitz, who increased his rating by more than a full class interval. Steinitz was the deep student and fierce competitor to the end of his career.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

In reality the mere privations is not enoughto cause an insurrection: if it were the masses would always be in revolt

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose.

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?