A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.