If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Memory feeds imagination.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.