Without goals we are nothing more than drifters, drifting where?

There is no time for regrets. Regrets relate to the past. We have been there. We need to progress to the future.

Quality of life is more important than the quantity

There is no substitute for experience.

No experience is ever wasted.

A man's character is best described in his epitaph

The most incredible thing about being a parent is seeing your own personality come out in your children.

the people who mostly get angry on you mostly love you

This is the better one. It's identical.

The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.

When we know that educating a girl can change the world, why wait?

I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.