All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.

Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess

Some of my greatest successes in business are simply the result of taking huge, calculated risks.

Give life a chance.

I just don't get it. You've been in love with this bloke since you were a kid, and he's never once got his hair cut short enough that it doesn't poke him in the damn eye.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Never mind about the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.