Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.