At the weekends I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

I've known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that's left-

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

Whoever is under a man's power is under his protection, too.

Dream Lies In Your Eyes.

It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the next stage, lest procrastination stymies you.

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.

Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.

I found that I loved producing that kind of propaganda and I loved the power that a few students with a Macintosh computer could wield. I was hooked on communications at that point.

It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.