Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.