There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

I've known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that's left-

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

One age ends, and another begins. It is the way of things. But, it doesn't happen all at once.

A right word counts the silence

Rich or poor it’s nice to have money

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.

God gives enabling grace to go on.

Design really can be anything.

Simplicity is the key to success.

When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.