Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.

When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board.

Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.

If you are interested in improving, think of a draw offer as an offer to remain ignorant of what you would have learned in the remainder of the game.

i"ll always catch you when you fall." -Daniel, , torment

Making love to a person in their sleep is the only guarantee they'll wake up with a smile on their face.

It was a terrible thing, to love and not know whether you were loved in return, it led to the worst sensations--jealousy, rage, self-loathing--to all these lesser states.

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.

I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.

They signed the unwind order just to spite each other,but laugh,laugh,laugh,Hayden, because if you ever stop laughing,it might just tear you apart worse than a Chop Shop.

I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.

I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.

I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)