Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.

Women do not give a very favorable estimate of their appearance

...the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open...

Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.

What really amazed me was when I sent a suit out for cleaning, forgetting that $700 was in the pocket. They sent the suit back to me. If that happened in New York, both money and suit would be gone.

It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.

We are the short of people that make health insurance popular.