How can I lose to such an idiot?

The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

The threat is stronger than the execution.

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.

Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.

In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.

The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard

Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will then find themselves well posted in every respect.

Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!

A man in love can do extraordinary things, I don’t care if you’re an angel, you’re my angel, and I won’t let you go.

Never fear to be wonderful.

Sometimes you just have to find the majesty in yourself and other things to truly appreciate life.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!

Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without me having to demonstrate it.

Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be effective in the way it was originally intended to be.

How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.

I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it.

The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.