Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective

I think he [Donald Trump] is generally a good person, but you know what? He had no business being president of the United States. If I thought he did, I wouldn't be running. I'd be helping him.

Art is like ham-it nourishes people.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.

... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.