He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.