Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

The strong are so stupid.

She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.

One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.