I never date anyone my cat doesn't like.

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.

They smile that smile, they bat those eyes. They steal with hello, they kill you with goodbye. They're the perfect drug. As you're walking away, you hear that sweet voice, 'Stay.

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.

Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.

All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.

Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting can be the magic thread which links the girls of the world together.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.

Certain struggles never end.