There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish.

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.

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