What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.
We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.