I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

William Butler Yeats

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

Jonathon Ive

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Richard Dawkins

You can miss a person you've never known.

Jodi Picoult

Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.

Paul Feig

On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions.

Michael Sheen

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

James Madison

If debates about beauty in nineteenth-centuryFrance were ?erce, that was because beauty was seen to matter. Thiswas a world of political revolutions, of social reformism, of belief inprogress and human perfectibility. Why was it that beauty mattered somuch in such a world?.

Elizabeth Prettejohn

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Margaret Atwood

When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?

John Ball

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo Grotius