Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.