A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.