The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do

Good positions don't win games, good moves do

Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

The idea comes before the logical argument.

In chess there is a world of intellectual values.

God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.

If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let’s go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].

A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

Time passes. That's the rule. No matter what happens, no matter how much it might feel like everything in your life has been frozen around one particular moment, time marches on.

We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.

I also have two children under three who keep me up all night and don't seem to understand the benefits of sitting in silence, which has presented an interesting challenge.

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

If you look at the natural world, really look at it, it's always magical.

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.