All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

A successful career has been full of blunders.

You cannot win without sacrifice.

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.

God made us for relationships before he made us for tasks.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

Don't hang yourself with the slack you've been given.

What is love, Mikayel? Isn't it the most irrational of all human emotions? And the one most forbidden?

It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war

You have got a good side? I have. I just do not use it too often. My bad side is so much more fun.

Confidence is one of the sexiest things.

I have been an underdog my whole life, both in life and in politics. We're going to do well. We're going to pick up a lot of delegates on Super Tuesday.

You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach.