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

The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

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.

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

I hope, or I could not live.