There are no heroes in chess.

Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

I think that's the most important thing-two things really, have fun and be yourself.

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

So long as I could write things down I could give up talking for a VERY long time.

Only the fool wants to go into battle to beat someone for the satisfaction of beating someone.

And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity.

Me and hip-hop have a relationship that has nothing to do with no other rapper, no matter where you from or nothing. Every n*gga got his own personal relationship with hip-hop and this is mine.

You don't need 70 people in a White House press conference to tell people what happened there. You need a camera and maybe a couple reporters, and that's it.

During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.