Chess is life and every game is like a new life.

For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.

I like to accept it all, the negative and the positive.

Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality

You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

I don't surf the web very much.