All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
People fail forward to success.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.