Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.

In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.

Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."

Any scripture that demands irrefutable obedience must be discarded at once.

There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy.

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.