I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

One picture is worth a thousand words

Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.