There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

Vladimir Kramnik

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Joan Baez

Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Walter Lippmann

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

Immanuel Kant

I don't want to hear about my death.

Oriana Fallaci

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Ambrose Bierce

The richness of the human journey is here. Listen. Pass it on. So that there will not pass from our future the enchantment that begins with the honored words, Once upon a time, long ago and far away, in a deep forest, there lived a child - much like you.

Anon.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Reynolds Price

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

Christy Mathewson