I feel that everyone is good. In this way I give every game my best effort. The moment that you let up is the time that you can be hit by the sucker punch.

Chess is a natural cerebral high.

Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it.

Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves.

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.

Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.

Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.

Lo! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand. Secure, insensible.

I think true romance is dry schizophrenic... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it.

The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age . . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.