If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.