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-

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.

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.

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it.

The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

I just need to make sure I don't get in my own way of a truthful and organic moment. Regardless of the research involved, at the end of the day, I have to show up, breathe, and listen.

Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.

Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke.

Dare to believe, and then dare to speak, and you shall have whatsoever you say if you doubt not.

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.