It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

A habit does not a monk make.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.

A man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

I don't like dudes. Not even for 1 second.

I guess I've written enough songs now. I've been doing this for so many years, that it's kinda cool just to be able to pull something out of the bag.

Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.

And there's no better way to thaw a face, as it turns out, than with another face.

The measure of love is to love without measuring.

Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.

My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.