A constant FRIEND is a thing rare and hard to find.

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine.

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.

There's no better friend than a sister.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

So many people com einto our lives and then leave the way they came. But there are those precious few who touch our hearts so deeply we will never be the same.

Look to the beauty of this day, miracles are all around you.

If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud.

Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.

Bloom where you are planted!

If a friend starts behaving silly because you bother him so much, don't worry, you're not the first person, he has got a sting in his stomach, an hunger that causes an epidemic hatred.

As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."

Initiative is at the heart of manhood

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women.

As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.

We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.