If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.
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.
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.