I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.