A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'