The pawn is the soul of chess.

Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense

A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.

The Pawns are the soul of the game

It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.

However beautiful a morning may be, we still must not wish it to continue endlessly, because this shall mean missing forever all the beauties of the night!

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day.

A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.

What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.

Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.

If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.