Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.