Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win.

I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

Shizuo Heiwajima, the strongest man in Ikebukuro: "I just want the ability to control myself. That's the kind of strength I want.

We are our own worst enemy and make no mistake we are destroying ourselves.

Emotional quotient is far more important than intelligence quotient. We live with people, not with math problems.

Little did he know, back then, that the worth of one's faith depended not on how solid and strong it was, but on how many times one would lose it and still be able to get it back.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Believe in yourself. Believe in the power of your strength.Never, never lose yourself confidence.

... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.

The Holy Spirit is no Skeptic, & the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions - surer & more certain than sense & life itself.

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film, than feeling like you've achieved that.