“In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact.”

I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed.

Attack! Always Attack!

He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself.

He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.

It is … impossible to keep one’s excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted.

On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

I was going to go to med school. My father’s dream was that all of his kids become doctors.

And that is a threat that here in Europe, they feel acutely. They’ve seen their countries interfered with, bombarded by cyber-attacks, by Russian propaganda, indeed, by Russian troops.

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.

You must spend money, if you wish to make money.

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.

The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.