With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time

With a name like that, he must be Catholic, right?

The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected.

If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

Some things are just for private. It's like people thinking I'm cold or this or that. It's unfortunate, but I don't need strangers to know that I'm warm. I don't need strangers to know the real me.

If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.