If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love.
In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.